different between trouble vs care

English

Etymology

Verb is from Middle English troublen, trublen, turblen, troblen, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbul?re, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English truble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tr?b??l; IPA^(key): /?t??b(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??b(?)l/, /?t??-/
• Rhymes: -?b?l
• Hyphenation: trou?ble

Noun

trouble (countable and uncountable, plural troubles)

1. A distressing or dangerous situation.

2. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

3. A violent occurrence or event.

4. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
   • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller

     She never took the trouble to close them.

   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.

5. A malfunction.

6. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

7. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
8. (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.

Usage notes

• Verbs often used with "trouble": make, spell, stir up, ask for, etc.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:difficult situation

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.

Verb

trouble (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled)

1. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
2. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.

   What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
3. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.

   I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

4. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.

   I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.

5. (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:

     Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.

Related terms

• turbid
• turbulent

Translations

Further reading

• trouble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• trouble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• -buterol, Boulter, boulter

French

Etymology 1

Deverbal of troubler or from Old French troble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ubl/

Noun

trouble m (plural troubles)

1. trouble
2. (medicine) disorder

Derived terms

• trouble de la personnalité
• trouble obsessionnel compulsif

Verb

trouble

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

Etymology 2

From Old French troble, probably from a Vulgar Latin *turbulus (with metathesis), itself perhaps an alteration of Latin turbidus with influence from turbulentus; cf. also turbula. Compare Catalan tèrbol, Romanian tulbure.

Adjective

trouble (plural troubles)

1. (of a liquid) murky, turbid, muddy, thick, clouded, cloudy; not clear

Derived terms

• pêcher en eau trouble

Further reading

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??/
• (General American) enPR: kâr, IPA^(key): /k?(?)?/, /ke(?)?/, [ke(??)?], [k?(??)?]
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English care, from Old English caru, ?earu (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *kar? (“care, sorrow, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eh?r- (“shout, call”). Cognate with Old Saxon cara, kara (“concern, action”), Middle High German kar (“sorrow, lamentation”), Icelandic kör (“sickbed”), Gothic ???????????????? (kara, “concern, care”). Related also to Dutch karig (“scanty”), German karg (“sparse, meagre, barren”), Latin garri?, Ancient Greek ????? (gêrus). See also chary.

Noun

care (countable and uncountable, plural cares)

1. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow. [13th–19th c.]
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, Scene ii^[1]:

     More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II Scene ii^[2]:

     Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 566:

     One day, among the days, he bethought him of this and fell lamenting for that the most part of his existence was past and he had not been vouchsafed a son, to inherit the kingdom after him, even as he had inherited it from his fathers and forebears; by reason whereof there betided him sore cark and care and chagrin exceeding.

2. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
3. Worry.
4. Maintenance, upkeep.

   • Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

5. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
6. The state of being cared for by others.

7. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.

Derived terms

Related terms

• chary

Translations

Quotations

• 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie

  ‘Have a care, Buquet—ghosts like not to be seen or talked about!’

Etymology 2

From Middle English caren, carien, from Old English carian (“to sorrow, grieve, be troubled, be anxious, to care for, heed”), from Proto-West Germanic *kar?n (“to care”), from Proto-Germanic *kar?n? (“to care”).

Cognate with Middle High German karn (“to complain, lament, grieve, mourn”), Alemannic German karen, kären (“to groan, wheeze, give a death rattle”), Swedish kära (“to fall in love”), Icelandic kæra (“to care, like”), Gothic ???????????????????? (kar?n, “to be concerned”).

Verb

care (third-person singular simple present cares, present participle caring, simple past and past participle cared)

2. (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene i^[4]:

     […] What cares these roarers [i.e. thunder] for the name of king? […]
3. (intransitive, polite, formal) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards.

4. (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.

5. (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
   • 2006, Grace Toney Edwards, JoAnn Aust Asbury, Ricky L. Cox, A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region, Univ. of Tennessee Press (?ISBN), page 108:

     After introducing herself, the therapist then asked the patient if it would be all right to do the exercises which the doctor had ordered for her. The patient would response, "Well, I don't care to." For several days, the therapist immediately left the room and officially recorded that the patient had "refused" therapy. [...] It was not until months later that this therapist [...] discovered that she should have been interpreting "I don't care to" as "I don't mind" doing those exercises now.

Usage notes

• The sense "to want" is most commonly found as an interrogative or negative sentence, and may take a for clause (would you care for some tea?) or (as a catenative verb) takes a to infinitive (would you care to go with me?). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Acre, CERA, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, acre, e-car, race, race-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/
• Homophones: car, carent, cares, carre, carrent, carre, quarre, quarres, quarrent, quart

Verb

care

1. inflection of carer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• acre, âcre, créa, race

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -are

Adjective

care

1. feminine plural of caro

Anagrams

• acre, cera, c'era, crea, reca

Latin

Pronunciation

• car?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.re?/, [?kä?e?]
• car?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.re/, [?k????]
• c?re: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka?.re/, [?kä???]
• c?re: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.re/, [?k????]

Verb

car?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of care?

Adjective

c?re

1. vocative masculine singular of c?rus

References

• care in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• care in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• care in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English caru, ?earu (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”). See Modern English care for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?r(?)/

Noun

care (plural cares)

1. grief; sorrow [from 13th c.]

   • Than Feraunte his cosyn had grete care and cryed full lowde […].

Descendants

• English: care
• Scots: care
• Yola: caure

References

• “c?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

care

1. inflection of cara (“walker; frequenting”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Verb

care

1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of carati (“to walk”)
2. optative active singular of carati (“to walk”)

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin qu?lis, qu?lem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kare/
• Rhymes: -are

Determiner

care

1. which

Inflection

Pronoun

care

1. which, that, who

Etymology 2

Noun

care n pl

1. plural of car (cart)

Etymology 3

Verb

care

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of c?ra
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of c?ra

Venetian

Adjective

care f

1. feminine plural of caro