different between unite vs complot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?n?tus, perfect passive participle of ?ni?.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: yo?o-n?t?, yo?o-, IPA^(key): /ju?na?t/, /j??na?t/, [ju??na???], [ju??na??(?)t?], [j??na???], [j??na??(?)t?], [j??na???], [j??na??(?)t?]
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Hyphenation: u?nite

Verb

unite (third-person singular simple present unites, present participle uniting, simple past and past participle united)

1. (transitive) To bring together as one.

2. (reciprocal) To come together as one.

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Translations

Noun

unite (plural unites)

1. (Britain, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotland.
   • 1968, Seaby's coin and medal bulletin (issues 593-604, page 198)

     Occasionally Scots and Irish coins are also found. The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.

Anagrams

• untie

Interlingua

Adjective

unite (not comparable)

1. united

Participle

unite

1. past participle of unir

Italian

Verb

unite

1. second-person plural present indicative of unire
2. second-person plural imperative of unire
3. plural of unito

Anagrams

• tenui

Latin

Verb

?n?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?ni?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t
• (noun) IPA^(key): /?k?m?pl?t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?t/

Noun

complot (plural complots)

1. (archaic) A plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy
   • c. 1582–1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, Act 3, Scene 2:

     LOR. Now to confirme the complot thou hast cast

     Of all these practices, Ile spread the watch,

     Vpon precise commandement from the king

     Strongly to guard the place where Pedringano

     This night shall murder haples Serberine.

   • c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 5, Scene 1:

     AARON: […] / For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres,

     Acts of black night, abominable deeds,

     Complots of mischief, treason, villainies,

     Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd: / […]

   • 1918, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, Grosset & Dunlap 1919, page 164:

     The young advertising agent stood against the fence in silent horror, his heart bumping heavily. His hands were clammy, his feet seemed to have grown larger and taken root. What damnable complot was this?

Verb

complot (third-person singular simple present complots, present participle complotting, simple past and past participle complotted)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To plot together; conspire.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act 1, Scene 1:

     BOLINGBROKE. […] Besides, I say and will in battle prove,

     Or here, or elsewhere to the furthest verge

     That ever was survey'd by English eye,

     That all the treasons for these eighteen years

     Complotted and contrived in this land,

     Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.

Derived terms

• complotment
• complotter

Related terms

• plot

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French complot.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?pl?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?pl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. conspiracy

Further reading

• “complot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “complot” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “complot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “complot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1996) komplot

Etymology

From French complot (“crowd-, plot”), from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?t/
• Hyphenation: com?plot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

complot n (plural complotten, diminutive complotje n)

1. conspiracy

Synonyms

• samenzwering

Derived terms

• complotdenker
• complottheoreticus
• complottheorie

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: komplot

French

Etymology

From Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.plo/

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. plot; conspiracy

Derived terms

• comploter
• théorie du complot

Descendants

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. plot; conspiracy; complot

Romanian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *palo-, *pl?- (“to fold”)

Noun

complot n (plural comploturi)

1. complot, conspiracy

Related terms

• complota
• complotare
• complotat (past participle of "complota")
• complotist

Spanish

Etymology

From French complot (“plot, conspiracy”), from Middle French complot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom?plot/, [kõm?plot?]

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. (colloquial) plot, conspiracy