different between undo vs unwork

English

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?n?du?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: undue (in yod dropping dialects)

Etymology 1

From Middle English und?n, from Old English ond?n, from Proto-Germanic *andad?n? (“to undo”), equivalent to un- +? do. Cognate with West Frisian ûndwaan, ûntdwaan (“to undo; rid”), Dutch ontdoen (“to undo”).

Verb

undo (third-person singular simple present undoes, present participle undoing, simple past undid, past participle undone) (transitive)

1. To reverse the effects of an action.

   Fortunately, we can undo most of the damage to the system by the war.
2. To unfasten.

   Could you undo my buckle for me?

3. (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
   • 1611, King James Bible

     Woe is me, for I am undone!

Synonyms

• (reverse effects): cancel, reverse
• (unfasten): unbuckle, unbutton, untie, unzip

Antonyms

• (reverse effects): redo
• (unfasten): do up, button, button up, tie up, zip, zip up,

Translations

Noun

undo (plural undos)

1. (computing) An operation that reverses a previous action.

   How many undos does this program support?

Translations

Etymology 2

Adjective

undo

1. Misspelling of undue.

Further reading

• undo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• udon

Latin

Etymology

From unda (“a wave”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?un.do?/, [??n?d?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?un.do/, [?un?d??]

Verb

und? (present infinitive und?re, perfect active und?v?, supine und?tum); first conjugation

1. I rise in waves.
2. I overflow with, abound in.
3. I wave, undulate.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• abund?
• redund?

Descendants

• Aromanian: undedz, undari
• ? English: undate
• Italian: ondare
• Portuguese: undar
• Romanian: unda, undare
• Spanish: ondear

References

• undo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• undo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• undo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
• redound in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Lindu

Noun

undo

1. flattery

English

Etymology 1

un- +? work

Verb

unwork (third-person singular simple present unworks, present participle unworking, simple past and past participle unworked or (archaic) unwrought)

1. (transitive) To undo or destroy (work previously done).

Etymology 2

From un- +? work.

Noun

unwork (uncountable)

1. The lack or absence of work; worklessness.
   • 1892, John Greenleaf Wittier, The Prose of John Greenleaf Wittier:

     That comfortable philosophy which modern transcendentalism has but dimly shadowed forth — that poetic agrarianism, which gives all to each and each to all— is the real life of this city of unwork.

   • 1963, Life - Jan 1963:

     Collective bargaining has a crisis of "unwork" — that is, work which Justice Douglas once called "unwanted . . . totally useless." So much "unwork" clutters the table that collective bargaining is no longer able to do what it should: […]