different between well vs treasure

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?l/. When used as an interjection, but not otherwise, occasional weak form /w?l/.
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English wel, wal, wol, wele, from Old English wel (“well, abundantly, very, very easily, very much, fully, quite, nearly”), from Proto-Germanic *wela, *wala (“well”, literally “as wished, as desired”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“wish, desire”). Cognate with Scots wele, weil (“well”), North Frisian wel, weil, wal (“well”), West Frisian wol (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), Low German wol (“well”), German wol, wohl (“well”), Norwegian and Danish vel (“well”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vel, val (“well”). Related to will.

Alternative forms

• wall (dialectal)
• weel, weil (Scotland)
• welp (US, informal)

Adverb

well (comparative better, superlative best)

1. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     This day is not going well.

2. (manner) Completely, fully.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

3. (degree) To a significant degree.
4. (degree, Britain, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
   • 1999, "Drummond Pearson", What Ash are doing right now... (on Internet newsgroup alt.music.ash)

     That guy rocks! I think he's called Matthew Lillard or sommat but he is well cool in Scream.

   • 2002, "jibaili", FIFA 2003 How is it? (on Internet newsgroup microsoft.public.xbox)

     Hey Dude / FIFA 2003 is well wicked, I've got FIFA 2002 on PS2, David Beckham on Xbox and Football Manager on Xbox too, out of all pf^[sic] them FIFA 2003 is easliy^[sic] the best.
5. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
   • October 10, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Joseph Addison

     All the world speaks well of you.

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Adjective

well (comparative better or weller, superlative best or wellest)

1. In good health.

2. (hypercorrect) Good, content.

3. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
   • 1897, National Association of Railway Surgeons, Railway surgeon, page 191:

     On leaving the operating table it is well to put the patient in a bed previously warmed and supplied with hot cans.

Derived terms

• full well
• get well
• oh, well
• well-being

Translations

Interjection

well

1. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.

2. An exclamation of surprise (often doubled or tripled).

3. An exclamation of indignance.

4. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.

5. Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Well, I am sorry. - It’s okay, Anna.

6. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting

Synonyms

• (reluctance): like, you know
• (filled pause): I mean, like
• (acknowledgment of previous statement): so
• (indignant): see, look, as if

Derived terms

• well, well
• welp

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English welle, from Old English wielle (“well”), from Proto-Germanic *wallij? (“well, swirl, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; roll”). Cognate with West Frisian wel (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), German Low German Well (“well”), German Welle (“wave”), Danish væld (“well; spring”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vella (“boiling; bubbling; eruption”).

Noun

well (plural wells)

1. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
2. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
3. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.

   Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.

4. (figuratively) A source of supply.
5. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
6. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
7. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
8. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
9. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
10. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
11. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
12. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
13. A well drink.

    They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.

14. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
15. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.

Synonyms

• (excavation in the earth, from which run branches or galleries): shaft

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Etymology 3

From Middle English wellen, from Old English willan, wyllan, wellan (“to boil; bubble forth”) and Old English weallan (“to well; bubble forth; spring out; flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallijan, from Proto-Germanic *wallijan?, *wallan?.

Cognate with German wallen (“boil, seethe”), Danish vælde (“gush”), Norwegian Nynorsk vella and outside Germanic, with Albanian valë (“hot, boiling”).

Verb

well (third-person singular simple present wells, present participle welling, simple past and past participle welled)

1. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.

   • [Blood] welled from out the wound.

   • 1824, William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn

     [Yon spring] wells softly forth.

2. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.

   Her eyes welled with tears.

Derived terms

• upwell
• well up

Translations

German

Verb

well

1. singular imperative of wellen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of wellen

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From the accusative of Middle High German w?le, from Old High German w?la, from Proto-West Germanic *hw?lu. Cognate with German weil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væl/
• Rhymes: -æl
• Homophone: Well

Conjunction

well

1. because

Middle English

Adverb

well

1. Alternative form of wel

Adjective

well

1. Alternative form of wel

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wallij?, whence also Old High German wella, Old Norse vella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /well/, [we?]

Noun

well m

1. well

Declension

Descendants

• English: well

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German welich, from Old High German welih. Compare German welch.

Adverb

well

1. which

Pronoun

well

1. which

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?w??/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?we??/, /?w??/

Adjective

well

1. Soft mutation of gwell.

Adverb

well

1. Soft mutation of gwell.

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• treasuer (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English tresour, from Old French tresor (“treasury”), from Latin th?saurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (th?saurós, “treasure house”). Displaced native Middle English schat. Doublet of thesaurus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t????/, /?t??????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????/
• Hyphenation: treas?ure
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

treasure (countable and uncountable, plural treasures)

1. (uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
2. (countable) Anything greatly valued.

   • Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me.

   • 1681, Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear

     I found the whole to answer your Account of it, a Heap of Jewels, unstrung and unpolisht; yet so dazling in their Disorder, that I soon perceiv'd I had seiz'd a Treasure.

   • 1946, Ernest Tubb, Filipino Baby

     She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet

     Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet

3. (countable) A term of endearment.
   • 1922, Francis Rufus Bellamy, A Flash of Gold

     "Hello, Treasure," he said without turning round. For a second she hesitated, standing in the soft light of the lamp, the deep blue of the rug making a background for her, the black fur collar of her coat framing the vivid beauty of her face.

Related terms

• treasury

Translations

Verb

treasure (third-person singular simple present treasures, present participle treasuring, simple past and past participle treasured)

1. (transitive, of a person or thing) To consider to be precious; to value highly.

   Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.

   • 1838, Eliza Cook, "The Old Armchair", in Melania and other Poems

     I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare

     To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?

     I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;

     I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.

2. (transitive) To store or stow in a safe place.
   • 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman

     The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To enrich.

Synonyms

• (to consider to be precious): cherish

Antonyms

• (to consider to be precious): despise

Translations

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Anagrams

• austerer, treasuer