different between vote vs ballet

English

Etymology

From Latin v?tum, a form of vove? (“I vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek ??????? (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wog??-. The word is thus a doublet of vow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vo?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

vote (plural votes)

1. a formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.

2. an act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot
   • Directive (EU) 2017/828 amending Directive 2007/36/EC, recital 10:

3. (obsolete) an ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer
   • 1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655, OCLC 15553475; republished as “The Guardian. A Comical History. As It hath been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friars, by His Late Majesty's Servants, with Great Applause, 1655.”, in Thomas Coxeter, editor, The Works of Philip Massinger. Volume the Fourth. Containing, The Guardian. A Very Woman. The Old Law. The City Madam. And Poems on Several Occasions, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1761, OCLC 6847259, Act V, scene i, page 71:

     Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Cour?e of Nature, / Or Violence you mu?t fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ?ame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […]

4. (obsolete) a formalized petition or request
5. (obsolete) any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view
6. any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vote (third-person singular simple present votes, present participle voting, simple past and past participle voted)

1. (intransitive) to cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election
2. (transitive) to choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent

Hyponyms

• vote in
• vote out
• vote down

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• elect
• nominate

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: vot
  • ? Rotokas: votu

Further reading

• vote and voting in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• to've, veto

Asturian

Verb

vote

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of votar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote. Doublet of vœu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t/
• Homophones: votent, votes
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

1. vote

Derived terms

• vote à main levée

Related terms

• votant

Verb

vote

1. inflection of voter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• veto, véto

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?o?.te/, [?u?o?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vo.te/, [?v??t??]

Participle

v?te

1. vocative masculine singular of v?tus

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote, from Latin v?tum, from vove?, vov?re (“vow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eweg??-.

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

1. (Jersey) vote

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?v?.t??i/

Verb

vote

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bote/, [?bo.t?e]

Verb

vote

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of votar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of votar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of votar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”), from Late Latin ball? (“to dance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæle?/, /bæl?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bælæe/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /b?læe/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /b?le?/, /b?l??/
• (General American) enPR: b?-l??, b??l?(') IPA^(key): /bæ?le?/, /?bæ(?)le?/
• Rhymes: -æle?, -æli, -e?
• Hyphenation: bal?let

Noun

ballet (countable and uncountable, plural ballets)

1. A classical form of dance.
2. A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
3. The company of persons who perform this dance.
4. (music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
5. (heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
6. (figuratively) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
   • 1990, Historic Preservation: Quarterly of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings (volumes 42-43)

     Food preparation on a potager no doubt became a kitchen ballet in which pans were constantly shifted, coals constantly replenished, and grates shaken out.

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     Henry Payton joined Alan on the sidelines during the conclusion of the oddly delicate ballet known as On-Scene Investigation.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ballet (third-person singular simple present ballets, present participle balleting, simple past and past participle balleted)

1. To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.
   • 2014 Rutherford's Vascular Surgery E-Book - Page 1340

     Situations that typically require longer iliac limbs than the measurements suggest include extreme iliac tortuosity, “balleting” of the limbs (Endurant and Excluder) (Fig. 90-3), and the need to extend to the external iliac arteries. It these anatomic circumstances, it is prudent to choose a longer length when in doubt.

   • 2016 Jacob Russell Dring, "Endless the Chase"

     Unfortunately, he could only sustain so much abuse. Footfalls approached. Kanoa's lips smacked and his jaw hung open. His eyelids fluttered, their underlying gaze balleting without clarity. He felt beyond sick, and his world spun immensely. A garbled voice of incoherency seemed to be his only link to this realm of consciousness.

   • 2017 Num Nums "A Total Bust a Move" The ZhuZhus

     Frankie's obviously going to ballet her way to the trophy.

See also

• mime
• modern dance

Anagrams

• betall

Catalan

Noun

ballet m (plural ballets)

1. ballet

Further reading

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

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from English ballet, from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”).

Noun

ballet

1. ballet (dance tradition and style)

Danish

Etymology

Either from French ballet or directly from Italian balletto, the diminutive form of ballo (“dance, ball”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal?t/, [b?a?l?d?]

Noun

ballet c (singular definite balletten, plural indefinite balletter)

1. ballet

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: balletti

Further reading

• “ballet” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet, from Middle French ballet, from Italian balletto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??l?t/
• Hyphenation: bal?let
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

ballet n (plural balletten, diminutive balletje n)

1. ballet

Derived terms

• balletles
• balletzaal

French

Etymology

From Italian balletto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.l?/

Noun

ballet m (plural ballets)

1. ballet

Derived terms

• ballet à ski
• ballet-féerie
• corps de ballet
• maître de ballet

Descendants

• ? English: ballet
• ? Portuguese: balé, balê
• ? Swedish: balett
• ? Thai: ??????? (ban-lêe)
• ? Vietnamese: ba lê

Further reading

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

German

Verb

ballet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of ballen

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?bäl???t?]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?bal?et]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?b?l??t?]

Verb

ballet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of ball? (“to dance”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?palleh(t)/

Verb

ballet

1. inflection of ballat:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular past indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ballet n

1. definite singular of ball (Etymology 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ballet n

1. definite singular of ball (Etymology 2)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French ballet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bale/, [?ba.le]

• IPA^(key): /ba?let/, [ba?let?]

Noun

ballet m (uncountable)

1. ballet