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trouble
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)
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- A violent occurrence or event.
- 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.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
- A malfunction.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (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)
- (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
- I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
- Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
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)
- trouble
- (medicine) disorder
Derived terms
- trouble de la personnalité
- trouble obsessionnel compulsif
Verb
trouble
- first-person singular present indicative of troubler
- third-person singular present indicative of troubler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- 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)
- (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).
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heed
English
Etymology
From Middle English h?den, from Old English h?dan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-Germanic *h?dijan? (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kad?- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
- Homophone: he'd
Noun
heed (uncountable)
- Careful attention.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
Usage notes
- Often used with give, pay or take.
Synonyms
- (careful attention): attention, notice, observation, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention
Translations
Verb
heed (third-person singular simple present heeds, present participle heeding, simple past and past participle heeded)
- (obsolete) To guard, protect.
- (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
- 1567, John Dryden translating Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1
- With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
- 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
- 1567, John Dryden translating Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1
- (intransitive, archaic) To pay attention, care.
Translations
Anagrams
- ehed, hede
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English h?afod, from Proto-Germanic *haubud? (“head”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??d/, /?h?v?d/, /?h??v?d/, /?h?vd/, /?h??vd/
Noun
heed (plural heedes)
- head (top portion of a human or animal, connected to the neck):
- The place where one's head rests (on a bed or when buried)
- That which covers the head; headwear or hair.
- The head as the origin of thought; intellect or one's brain.
- horns, antlers (of a cervid)
- The chief, most renowned or most prominent thing or person in a group:
- boss, leader, executive
- capital city
- start, origin
- The topmost end of a body of water or a geographical feature.
- One of the lengthwise ends of a geographic feature having more length than width.
- headwater
- The top end or peak of something; the uppermost point of something.
- The outermost extremity, point or projection of something.
- The functional or useful end of a tool or device.
- A rounded or head-shaped bump, boil, or similar protrusion.
- One's ability to live (presumably as decapitation kills)
- impetuousness, rashness, impatience; being unconsidered.
- (by extension) individual; someone or somebody
- (rare) military force or troop
Alternative forms
- hed, hede, heede, hedde, had, hade, head, heid, hiede, hide, heyd, hyede, hyde, het, heved, haved, hefed, hewed, hafed, haphed, hived, hyved, hefd, hefde, hevd, efd, hevid, hevyd
- heid, heifd, heyd, heyfd (Northern)
- hevod, heveð, heaved, heaveð, eaved, heafod, heafoð, heafad, hæved, hæfed, hæfedd, hæfved, hafved, heofod, hevet, hefet, heavet, hæfet, havet, heafd, heafde, hæfd, hæfde, heifd, heyfd, hafd, hafde, hifde, hyfde (early)
Related terms
- forheed
- heedles
- hoggeshed
- spere-hed
Adjective
heed
- head
Descendants
- English: head
- Scots: heid
- Yola: haade, heade
References
- p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
- “h?d, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-12.
Etymology 2
Noun
heed (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hed (“heed”)
Etymology 3
Verb
heed
- Alternative form of hadde: simple past/past participle of haven (“to have”)
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