different between turtle vs che

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??t?l/
• (US) enPR: tûr?t?l, IPA^(key): /?t?t?l/, [?t?????]
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?l

Etymology 1

Modification of Middle English tortou, tortu, from Old French tortüe (under the influence of Middle English turtel, turtur (“turtledove”), see Etymology 2 below), from Medieval Latin tortuca (compare Spanish tortuga), the same source of tortoise (see there for more). Displaced native Old English byrdling.

Alternative forms

• tortle (obsolete)

Noun

turtle (plural turtles)

1. (zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) shellpad, (archaic) shield-toad

2. (zoology, Australia, Britain, specifically) A marine reptile of that order.

   Synonym: sea turtle

3. (military, historical) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.

   Synonym: testudo

4. (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
5. (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
6. (printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
7. (computing theory) A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
8. (dance) A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
9. (television) A low stand for a lamp etc.
   • Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television

     Using an appropriate turtle allows the full range of pan and tilt adjustments on the luminaire and avoids possible heat damage to floor coverings.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

turtle (third-person singular simple present turtles, present participle turtling, simple past and past participle turtled)

1. To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
   • 1919, Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32, page 48

     Were speeding when car turtled […] Auto crashed into curb and turtled.

2. To turn and swim upside down.
3. To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
4. (video games, board games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.

Translations

See also

• chelonian
• hatchling (turtle young)
• terrapin
• tortoise

References

• turtle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Turtle on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Testudines on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Testudines on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

From Middle English turtle, tortle, turtel, turtul, from Old English turtle, turtla (“turtledove”), ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtledove”), of imitative origin.

Noun

turtle (plural turtles)

1. (now rare, archaic) A turtle dove.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck […] .

   • 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:

     As the turtle, every day has been a black day with her since her husband died, and what should we unruly members make here?

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Lutter, ruttle, turlet

Old English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtledove”), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?turt.le/, [?tur?t.le]

Noun

turtle f

1. turtle dove

Coordinate terms

• turtla m (“turtle dove (male)”)

Declension

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin quod. Compare Romanian c?.

Conjunction

che

1. Alternative form of cã

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian ?? (?e).

Noun

che (plural ches)

1. The letter ?, ?.

Translations

Etymology 2

A modification of ich, iche from Middle English ich (“I”, pronoun). Doublet of utchy.

Pronoun

che

1. (personal, obsolete) I.

Anagrams

• ECH, EHC

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Hindi ?? (cha?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??e/

Numeral

che (Bengali script ??)

1. six

Synonyms

• korok
• siks / sik

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.

Esperanto

Preposition

che

1. H-system spelling of ?e

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese che (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); from an inflected form of Latin t?: the accusative te is from Latin t?, the dative ti from tibi, the dative che emerged by metanalysis from the contraction of te and the article.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??e/

Pronoun

che

1. dative of ti

Usage notes

The personal pronoun can also be used as a "dative of solidarity" or "interesse" in colloquial register, meaning that either the interlocutor or the emissor is inserted into the action even when they don't have a direct intervention, so either to gain the interlocutor sympathy of to show personal interest:

1. • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I. E. O. P. F., page 126:

     Disse entõ o conde a el rey dom Garçia: -Rey, nõ as por que teer n?h?u destes que comigo som presos, que por mj? soo aueras quantos y som, et nõ lles faças n?h?u mal, ca elles nõ che am y culpa n?h?a.

     Then the count said to king Don García: «King, you don't have to keep as prisoners none of the ones that are with me, because just by me you'll find out how many they are, and don't yo do them any harm, because they are not to blame [to you] on this»

   • 1596, anonymous, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     eche cousa de chorar

     It is [to you] a thing for crying

References

• “che” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “che” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “che” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “che” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “che” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e/

Pronoun

che

1. I, me

See also

Determiner

che

1. my

   che angir? — "my friend"

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ?e, from French chez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??e/, /t???/

Preposition

che

1. at, in, to (someone in his or her house, home or place), with (a people, in respect of their customs)

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

che

1. that
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:

     Nu’ iè truvato spada, che me talgia

     I have not found a sword that would cut me

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin quid, from Proto-Indo-European *k?id, compare *k?is.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ke/
• Hyphenation: che
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

che

1. (interrogative) what; which

   Synonyms: cosa, che cosa

2. (relative) who; whom; which; nominative and accusative case

   Synonym: il quale

See also

• cui (relative; dative and prepositional case)

Etymology 2

From Latin quod, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?od.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke/ (unstressed)
• Hyphenation: che
• Rhymes: -e

Conjunction

che

1. that
2. than
3. when
4. let, may

Determiner

che

1. some (a remarkable); what (intensifier to begin a sentence)

References

Japanese

Romanization

che

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Ladin

Conjunction

che

1. that

Derived terms

• coche

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian che, from Latin quid.

Pronoun

che

1. what

Mandarin

Romanization

che

1. Nonstandard spelling of ch?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of ch?.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chè.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Pronoun

che

1. Alternative form of sche

Picard

Determiner

che m

1. this

Romagnol

Conjunction

che

1. that; which

Romansch

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) that

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) ca, c'
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

Pronoun

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) who, whom

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) tge
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

Etymology 2

From Latin quid.

Pronoun

che

1. (Puter, Vallader) what

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tge
• (Sursilvan) tgei

Etymology 3

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) than

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) ca
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter) cu
• (Vallader) co

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????/

Noun

che

1. Fort Liard form of tse

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 11

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??e/, [?t??e]

Etymology 1

Noun

che f (plural ches)

1. Name of the digraph Ch/ch, previously was considered a letter

Derived terms

• che vaqueira

Etymology 2

Interjection

che

1. (Argentine, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Valencia) hey

Descendants

• Portuguese: tchê

Noun

che m or f (plural che)

1. (colloquial, Chile) Argentinian person

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t?????]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t?????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [c???]

Verb

che • (?, ????, ????, ????)

1. to cover
2. (literally) to hide

Derived terms