different between vagrant vs ansible

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?ve????nt/
• Hyphenation: va?grant

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) [and other forms] and Old French walcrant, waucrant (“roaming, wandering”) [and other forms], perhaps influenced by Latin vag?r?, the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, stroll about; to roam, rove, wander”). Old French walcrant is the present participle of vagrer, wacrer, walcrer (“to wander, wander about as a vagabond”) [and other forms], from Frankish *walkr?n (“to wander about”), the frequentative form of *walk?n (“to walk; to wander; to stomp, trample; to full (make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing)”), from Proto-Germanic *walk?n? (“to roll about, wallow; to full”), *walkan? (“to turn, wind; to toss; to roll, roll about; to wend; to walk; to wander; to trample; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg-, *walk-, *welg?-, *welk-, *wolg- (“to turn, twist; to move”), ultimately from *welH- (“to turn; to wind”).

The English word is cognate with Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Middle Dutch walken (“to knead; to full”), Old English wealcan (“to roll”), ?ewealcan (“to go; to walk about”), Old High German walchan, walkan (“to move up and down; to press together; to full; to walk; to wander”), Old Norse valka (“to wander”). See further at walk.

Noun

vagrant (plural vagrants)

1. (dated) A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

   Synonyms: itinerant, rover; see also Thesaurus:wanderer

2. (specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.

   Synonyms: drifter, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond
3. Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
4. (biology, especially ornithology) An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.

Derived terms

Related terms

• vagary
• vagation

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English vagraunt, vagaraunt (“having no proper employment; having a tendency to go astray or wander; wayward”), from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) and Old French walcrant, waucrant (“roaming, wandering”); see further at etymology 1.

Adjective

vagrant (comparative more vagrant, superlative most vagrant)

1. Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.

   Synonyms: itinerant, nomadic, peripatetic, vagabond, (obsolete) vagrom, vague
2. Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.
3. (figuratively) Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.

   Synonyms: inconstant, straggling, straying, vagabond, (obsolete) vagrom, vague, wayward

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References

Further reading

• vagrancy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Coined by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin in 1966 in her novella Rocannon's World; Le Guin states that she derived it from answerable. The word was further spread by its adoption into other science fiction worlds, including by Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game (1986) and Dan Simmons in Hyperion (1989).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æn.s?.b?l/, /???n.s?.b?l/

Noun

ansible (plural ansibles)

1. (science fiction) A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device.
   • 1966, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon's World, reprinted in Worlds of Exile and Illusion, Macmillan (1996), ?ISBN, page 25:

     “You remember the ansible, the machine I showed you in the ship, which can speak instantly to other worlds, with no loss of years– […] ”

     “An ansible would theoretically be powered by subatomic particles that have undergone quantum entanglement, which utilizes Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance', allowing the alteration of one particle to instantaneously alter the state of its paired particle. […] ”

   • 1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, reprinted by Macmillan (2002), ?ISBN, page 251:

     “ […] The master ansible is there, in contact with all our invasion fleet; the ships are all working, ready to fight. […] ”

   • 2008, Elizabeth Moon, Victory Conditions, reprint by Random House (2009), ?ISBN, page 39,

     Ky had allotted two hours here, time to strip the news from the ansible, share it, even discuss it, but she didn’t plan to have everyone clustered and vulnerable.

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Further reading

• ansible on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lesbian, Nieblas, balines, bilanes, lesbian

Spanish

Etymology

From English ansible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an?sible/, [ãn?si.??le]

Noun

ansible m (plural ansibles)

1. (science fiction) ansible