different between volunteer vs violation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin volunt?rius (“willing, voluntary”); or from voluntary +? -eer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?l.?n?t??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v?l.?n?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: vol?un?teer

Noun

volunteer (plural volunteers)

1. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
2. (military) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
3. (law) A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
4. (botany, agriculture) A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
5. A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.

Related terms

• voluntarism
• voluntarist
• volunteership

Translations

Verb

volunteer (third-person singular simple present volunteers, present participle volunteering, simple past and past participle volunteered)

1. (intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.

   to volunteer for doing the dishes

3. (transitive) To offer, usually unprompted.

   to volunteer an explanation

4. (intransitive, botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
5. (transitive, informal) To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.

   My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.

Translations

References

• volunteer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French violation, from Latin viol?ti? (“injury, profanation”), from viol? (“I treat with violence; I maltreat; I violate, defile, profane”).Morphologically violate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va???le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

violation (countable and uncountable, plural violations)

1. The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.
   1. An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
   2. (euphemistic) Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.

Synonyms

• transgression
• desecration

See breach.

Antonyms

• compliance
• obedience

Related terms

• violate
• violable
• violative
• violator

Translations

Anagrams

• avolition

French

Pronunciation

Noun

violation f (plural violations)

1. violation