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troop
English
Etymology
Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe (back-formation of troupeau, diminutive of Medieval Latin troppus "flock") and Middle French trouppe (from Old French trope (“band, company, troop”)), both of Germanic origin from Frankish *thorp (“assembly, gathering”), from Proto-Germanic *þurp? (“village, land, estate”), from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“dwelling, settlement”). Doublet of troupe, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t?u?p/
- (US) IPA(key): /t?up/
- Rhymes: -u?p
- Homophone: troupe
Noun
troop (plural troops)
- (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
- A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
- (chiefly in the plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.
- (nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Coxe to this entry?)
- (Scouting) A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
- Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920) Aids To Scoutmastership?[1], page 6: “It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative effort.”
- (collective) A group of baboons.
- A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
- (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
Derived terms
- troop carrier
- trooper
- troop horse
- troopship
- troop train
Translations
Verb
troop (third-person singular simple present troops, present participle trooping, simple past and past participle trooped)
- To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
- To march on; to go forward in haste.
- To move or march as if in a crowd.
Derived terms
- troop the colour (British, military)
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
References
- “troop” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “troop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- Porto, Proto, porto, porto-, proot, proto, proto-, tropo, tropo-
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
troop f (plural tropen, diminutive troopje n)
- (music, literature, linguistics) trope
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association
English
Etymology
From Latin associ?ti?, from associ? (perhaps via French association).Morphologically associate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??s???i?e???n/, /??s??si?e???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??so??i?e???n/, /??so?si?e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)
- The act of associating.
- The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
- (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
- A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
- (object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
Synonyms
- (state of being associated): connection; See also Thesaurus:relation
- ass'n (abbreviation)
Derived terms
- guilt by association
Related terms
Translations
See also
- alliance
- coalition
- league
- union
Danish
Noun
association c (singular definite associationen, plural indefinite associationer)
- association
- 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN), page 83
- Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.
- Furthermore, children often block associations of anxiety for the dream content.
- Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.
- 2014, Klaus Kjøller, Sprogets Vej til Sindets Fred, 2. rev. vej, nu med Dit og Dat, KJOELLER.dk (?ISBN)
- I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.
- Instead of the everyday word "annihilation", which may contain negative associations of destruction and brutality, we use, on the Way of Language, the plus-corrected [?] expression "cancellation".
- I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.
- 2002, Anne Ring Petersen, Storbyens billeder: fra industrialisme til informationsalder, Museum Tusculanum Press (?ISBN), page 113
- ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.
- ... they will, Allouay writes, predominantly arouse associations of an urban/urbane character.
- ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.
- 1999, Bogens verden
- ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.
- ... everywhere, a world of shape-wealth, of possible associations, of stories and connections that can be unfolded from banality opens.
- ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.
- 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN), page 83
- group of persons united for some purpose
Declension
Further reading
- “association” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From associer +? -tion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.s?.sja.sj??/
- Homophone: associations
Noun
association f (plural associations)
- association, society, group
- (commerce, economics) partnership
- association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination
- (object-oriented programming) association
Derived terms
- association libre
Descendants
- ? Romanian: asocia?ie
Further reading
- “association” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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