different between tranche vs trance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tranche, form of trancher (“to cut, to slice”), from Old French trenchier (“cut, make a cut”), possibly from Vulgar Latin *trinic?re (“cut in three parts”). Cognate to English trench.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t?ænt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???n?/

Noun

tranche (plural tranches)

1. A slice, section or portion.
2. (insurance) A distinct subdivision of a single policyholder's benefits, typically relating to separate premium increments.
3. (pensions) A pension scheme's or scheme member's benefits relating to distinct accrual periods with different rules.
4. (finance) One of a set of classes or risk maturities that compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds. Collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches of bonds that have various maturities.

Verb

tranche (third-person singular simple present tranches, present participle tranching, simple past and past participle tranched)

1. (finance, transitive) To divide into tranches.

Related terms

• trench
• traunch

Translations

Further reading

• “tranche” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Investor Words

Anagrams

• chanter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????/

Noun

tranche f (plural tranches)

1. slice
2. milling on a coin
3. period

Verb

tranche

1. first-person singular present indicative of trancher
2. third-person singular present indicative of trancher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of trancher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of trancher
5. second-person singular imperative of trancher

Further reading

• “tranche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• chanter, chantre

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

tranche f (plural tranches)

1. (Jersey) slice

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin tr?nse? (“to cross over”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???ns/
  • Rhymes: -??ns
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns/
  • Rhymes: -æns

Noun

trance (countable and uncountable, plural trances)

1. (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
2. (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).

   • And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.

   • My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.

3. (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
4. (uncountable, music) Short for trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).

Alternative forms

• traunce (obsolete)

Derived terms

• trance-like
• trancester

Descendants

• French: trance

Translations

Verb

trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
2. (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.
   • 2014, Geoffrey Benjamin, Temiar Religion, 1964-2012, page 64:

     The Horned Toad (k??kak) tranced the rivers into being. A bak?h bird tranced the mountains. The Scrub Bulbul (??s?ããs) drilled fire into existence with its beak. And, finally, the Bronzed Black Drongo (t?rh??h) tranced the year […]

   • 1995, Sue Jennings, Kevin Jennings, Theatre, Ritual, and Transformation: The Senoi Temiars, page 111:

     What is interesting for us here is that Chingkai and her familiars dreamed and tranced the Temiar world into being. […]

Etymology 2

The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trounce with the same senses, which see for more). The noun is probably derived from the verb.

Verb

trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced)

1. (obsolete outside Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.

   Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

2. (obsolete outside Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.

   Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

   • Trance the world o'er.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana

     When thickest dark did trance the sky.

3. (obsolete outside Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.

   Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

Noun

trance (plural trances)

1. (obsolete outside Britain, dialectal) A tedious journey.

   Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

References

Anagrams

• Canter, Cretan, canter, carnet, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?træns/, [?t?ræns?]
• IPA^(key): /?tr?nse/, [?t?r?ns?e?]

Noun

trance

1. trance (genre of electronic dance music)

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s/
• Homophones: transe, transes
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

trance f (uncountable)

1. trance (music genre)

Anagrams

• carnet, centra, cernât, créant, encrât, tancer

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance f (invariable)

1. trance (music genre)

Anagrams

• centra

Middle English

Noun

trance

1. Alternative form of traunce

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trance m (definite singular trancen, indefinite plural trancer, definite plural trancene)

1. form removed by a 1984 spelling decision; superseded by transe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trance m (definite singular trancen, indefinite plural trancar, definite plural trancane)

1. form removed by a 1984 spelling decision; superseded by transe

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr??s/

Noun

trance m inan

1. trance music

Declension

References

• Wielki s?ownik wyrazów obcych, M. Ba?ko, PWN 2003, ?ISBN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance m (uncountable)

1. (music) trance (a genre of electronic dance music)

Etymology 2

Verb

trance

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of trançar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of trançar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of trançar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of trançar

Etymology 3

Noun

trance m (plural trances)

1. Obsolete form of transe.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance m (plural trances)

1. trance

Derived terms

• a todo trance