different between triage vs reception

English

Etymology

From French triage, from trier (“to sort”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?i?.???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?i.??/, /t?i???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

triage (countable and uncountable, plural triages)

1. Assessment or sorting according to quality.
   • 2007, Jeremy Harding, It Migrates to Them, London Review of Books 29:5, p. 26,

     [Mike Davis] notes that the 'late capitalist triage of humanity' has 'already taken place'.

2. (medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
3. (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
4. That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.

Translations

Verb

triage (third-person singular simple present triages, present participle triaging, simple past and past participle triaged)

1. To assess or sort according to urgency, quality, or some other aspect.

Translations

Anagrams

• Gaiter, aigret, gaiter, tirage, trigae

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French triage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri?a?.??/
• Hyphenation: tri?a?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

triage f (uncountable)

1. (medicine) triage (sorting of patients)
2. selection, sorting, choosing

Derived terms

• triagepost
• triagetent

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: triase

French

Etymology

From trier (“to sort”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i.ja?/

Noun

triage m (plural triages)

1. triage; sorting
   • le triage medical
2. (railway) classification, marshalling
3. (railway) classification yard, marshalling yard
4. (forestry) the smallest unit of forest in the ancien régime

Spanish

Noun

triage m (plural triages)

1. Misspelling of triaje.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French reception, from Latin recepti? (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipi? (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capi? (“I hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s?p.?n?/

Noun

reception (countable and uncountable, plural receptions)

1. The act of receiving.
2. (uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

   We have poor TV reception in the valley.

   The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

3. A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

   After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.

4. A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.

   The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
5. The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
6. (Britain, education) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
7. (law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
8. (American football) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Synonyms

• (desk where guests are received): front desk

Derived terms

• reception center, reception centre
• reception desk
• receptionist
• reception room

Related terms

• receptacle
• receptive
• receptible
• receptor
• receive

Translations

Anagrams

• pre-notice, prenotice

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French réception, English reception, from Latin receptio.

Noun

reception c

1. a reception, a front desk
2. a reception, a social welcoming event

Declension

Synonyms

• intagning (i en orden)
• mottagning
• vakt