different between vamp vs vampire

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /væmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).

Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4.

The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).

Noun

vamp (plural vamps)

1. The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. [from c. 1225]
3. Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.

   Synonym: patch

4. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
5. (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist. [from c. 1789]
6. (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.

Translations

Verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

2. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
3. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
   • 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song

     He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.
4. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
   1. (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
5. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
6. (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
7. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.

Derived terms

• new-vamp, revamp
• vamp up
• vamper

Etymology 2

Clipping of vampire. From a character type developed first for silent film, notably for Theda Bara's role in the 1915 film A Fool There Was.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

vamp (plural vamps)

2. A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her. [from c. 1915]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vamp
3. (informal) A vampire.

Derived terms

• vampish

Translations

Verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

1. (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.

Translations

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; possibly related to vamp (etymology 1, above): see the 2008 quotation.

Noun

vamp (plural vamps)

1. (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.

Translations

References

Further reading

• vamp (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English vamp.

Noun

vamp f (invariable)

1. vamp (flirtatious woman)

Spanish

Noun

vamp m or f (plural vamps)

1. vamp

English

Alternative forms

• vampyre (archaic)

Etymology

From French vampire, from German Vampir, from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian vàmp?r (said to be an alteration of a term *upir), from Proto-Slavic *?pyr?. Compare Russian ?????? (upýr?), Polish upiór, etc. Doublet of oupire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væm.pa?.?(?)/

Noun

vampire (plural vampires)

1. A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living. [from earlier 18th c.]

   Synonyms: nosferatu, lamia, cadaver sanguine

2. (colloquial) A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
3. A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) [from later 18th c.]

   Synonym: vampire bat

4. (figuratively, derogatory) A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.
5. (dated) A vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.
   • 2004, David W. Menefee, The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era (page 4)

     "What followed this decision was exactly what we had expected: Mr. Fox, realizing that the public was tiring of Theda Bara in vampire roles, announced that he would star her in a production of Romeo and Juliet," she illustrated.

6. (US, slang) A medical technician who works with patients' blood.
   • 2000, Tracie Peterson, Colorado Wings (page 373)

     "I draw blood from patients, and then I take it back to the lab and analyze it. Sometimes, the vampires do all the sticks, that is to say the lab assistants do all the blood collections." He grinned. "We have our own language at the lab."

Synonyms

• (blood drinker): hemovore, hematophagous

Derived terms

Related terms

• vamp

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ???????????? (bhêmpayar)
• ? Irish: vaimpír
• ? Japanese: ?????? (vanpaia), ????? (banpaia)
• ? Marathi: ?????????? (vh?mp?yar)
• ? Thai: ??????? (w?m-paai)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: bhampair
• ? Swahili: vampiri
• ? Welsh: fampir

Translations

Verb

vampire (third-person singular simple present vampires, present participle vampiring, simple past and past participle vampired)

1. (transitive, figuratively) To drain of energy or resources.

See also

• werewolf
• bloodsucker
• hemovore
• Vampire (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Common vampire bat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Desmodus rotundus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Desmodus rotundus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Desmodus rotundus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• The meaning of the word "vampire"

References

Anagrams

• vampier

Esperanto

Etymology

vampiro (“vampire”) +? -e

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vam?pire/

Adverb

vampire

1. vampirically

Related terms

• vampira (“vampiric”)
• vampiro (“vampire”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.pi?/

Noun

vampire m (plural vampires)

1. vampire

Derived terms

• vampirique
• vampiriser

Descendants

• ? Armenian: ?????? (vampir)
• ? Asturian: vampiru
• ? Belarusian: ?????? (vampir)
• ? Catalan: vampir
• ? Czech: vampýr
• ? English: vampire (see there for further descendants)
• ? Galician: vampiro
• ? Georgian: ??????? (vam?iri)
• ? Greek: ?????? (vampír)
• ? Italian: vampiro
• ? Malagasy: vampira
• ? Occitan: vampire
• ? Romanian: vampir
• ? Russian: ?????? (vampir) (see there for further descendants)
• ? Slovak: vampír
• ? Spanish: vampiro, vampira
  • ? Basque: banpiro
  • ? Cebuano: bampira
  • ? Tagalog: bampira
  • ? Waray-Waray: bampira
• ? Ottoman Turkish: ??????? (vampir)
  • Turkish: vampir
• ? Ukrainian: ?????? (vampir)

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Verb

vampire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vampirar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vampirar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vampirar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vampirar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vam?pi.re]

Noun

vampire f pl

1. plural of vampir?