different between whiff vs aroma

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /w?f/

• Rhymes: -?f

Etymology 1

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Noun

whiff (plural whiffs)

1. A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
2. An odour carried briefly through the air
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 2

     A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor […]

3. A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
4. (figuratively) A slight sign of something; a glimpse.
   • 2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton [1]

     This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long—the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.

   • 2012, Frank Underwood, House of Cards

     I can tell you first-hand that we are dealing with a regime that is not being forthright and will seize upon the faintest whiff of trepidation. This is a test to see how far they can push us before we breake.

5. (baseball) A strike (from the batter’s perspective)
6. (golf) An attempted shot that completely misses the ball.
7. The megrim, a fish: Lepidorhombus boscii or Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis.

Derived terms

• anglefin whiff
• horned whiff
• sand whiff
• Veracruz whiff
• whiffy

Synonyms

• (a movement of air): puff, waft
• (a brief odour): sniff

Translations

Verb

whiff (third-person singular simple present whiffs, present participle whiffing, simple past and past participle whiffed)

1. (transitive) To waft; to throw out in whiffs.
   • 1918, Charles Wellington Furlong, "Climbing the Shoulders of Atlas", in Harper's Monthly Magazine, page 433:

     […] to face the same bitter, westerly wind which searched our marrow as it tore over the world. It whiffed by us steam and sulphurous vapors from the caldron […]

2. To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
   • 1620, Ben Jonson, News from the New World Discovered in the Moon

     Old Empedocles, […] who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whift him up into the moon.

3. (colloquial) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
4. (transitive) To sniff.
   • 1891, "A Grain of Gold", in The Arena, page 631:

     [He], going farther away, whiffed at the pleasant odor of the grape blooms, waved his hand to the roses, in farewell, perhaps, lifted his face […]

5. To consume in whiffs; to puff.
   • 1914, Eva Emery Dye, The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark, page 90:

     There was silence as they whiffed at the council pipes. Then a tall chief arose and glanced at the handful of whites and at his own three hundred along the walls of the council house.

6. To miss:
   1. (intransitive, baseball) To strike out.
   2. (golf) To miss the ball completely.
   3. (slang) To attempt to strike and miss, especially being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
7. (slang) To fail spectacularly at a task.
8. (slang, dated, transitive) To kill; to assassinate.
   • 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)

     The trouble is he wasn't alone when you whiffed him.

Translations

Adjective

whiff (comparative more whiff, superlative most whiff)

1. (colloquial) Having a strong or unpleasant odor.
   • 2002: Jim Rozen, Way oil in rec.crafts.metalworking

     Whoo boy that gear oil is pretty whiff. If you actually do this, spend the extra money for the synthetic gear oil as it will not have as bad a sulfur stink as the regular stuff.

Translations

Derived terms

• whiffle

Etymology 2

Related to whip.

Verb

whiff (third-person singular simple present whiffs, present participle whiffing, simple past and past participle whiffed)

1. To fish with a handline.

English

Etymology

From Late Latin ar?mata (“spices”) (or ar?ma (“spice”)), from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????m?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???o?m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?

Noun

aroma (plural aromas or aromata)

1. A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.

Synonyms

• (a pleasant smell): fragrance, nosegay, scent
• See also Thesaurus:aroma

Antonyms

• (a pleasant smell): odor/odour, pungency, reek, stench

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• -o-rama, -orama, Amaro, amaro

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /???o.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a??o.ma/

Etymology 1

From Latin ar?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma).

Noun

aroma f (plural aromes)

1. aroma

Derived terms

• aromar

Related terms

• aromàtic

Etymology 2

Verb

aroma

1. third-person singular present indicative form of aromar
2. second-person singular imperative form of aromar

Further reading

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

Dutch

Alternative forms

• aroom

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ar?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??ro?.ma?/
• Hyphenation: aro?ma

Noun

aroma n (plural aroma's, diminutive aromaatje n)

1. aroma
2. food flavouring

Derived terms

• aromatisch

Esperanto

Etymology

From aromo +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?roma/
• Hyphenation: a?ro?ma
• Rhymes: -oma

Adjective

aroma (accusative singular aroman, plural aromaj, accusative plural aromajn)

1. aromatic

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin ar?ma (“spice, herb”), from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “spice, herb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rom?]
• Hyphenation: aro?ma
• Rhymes: -m?

Noun

aroma (plural aromák)

1. aroma

Declension

References

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ar?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

Noun

aroma m (plural aromi)

1. aroma, fragrance, smell
2. flavour, flavor
3. spice

Derived terms

Anagrams

• amaro

Further reading

• aroma in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?ro?.ma/, [ä??o?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?ro.ma/, [?????m?]

Noun

ar?ma n (genitive ar?matis); third declension

1. spice, herb

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• ar?maticus

Descendants

References

• aroma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Noun

aroma m (definite singular aromaen, indefinite plural aromaer, definite plural aromaene)

1. aroma

Related terms

• aromatisk

References

• “aroma” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Noun

aroma m (definite singular aromaen, indefinite plural aromaer or aromaar, definite plural aromaene or aromaane)

1. aroma

Related terms

• aromatisk

References

• “aroma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin aroma, from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.??o.m?/
• Hyphenation: a?ro?ma

Noun

aroma m (plural aromas)

1. aroma

   Synonyms: cheiro, odor, perfume

2. flavour

Related terms

• aromático

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar??ma/
• Hyphenation: a?ro?ma

Noun

aróma f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. aroma

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin ar?ma (“spices”), from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??oma/, [a??o.ma]

Noun

aroma m (plural aromas)

1. aroma

   Synonyms: esencia, fragancia, olor, perfume

Derived terms

Related terms

• aromatizar

Further reading

• “aroma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.