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career
English
Etymology
Mid 16th century, from French carrière (a road or racecourse), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carr?ria based on Latin carrus 'wheeled vehicle'. Alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan carriera ("road"), from Late Latin carr?ria.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?????/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?????/
- Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Korea
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
career (plural careers)
- One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
- General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
- (archaic) Speed.
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- when a horse is running in his full career
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy
- It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- A jouster's path during a joust.
- 1819: Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career.
- 1819: Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. [16th-18th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:
- It is said of Cæsar […] that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.
- 1756, William Guthrie (translator), Of Eloquence (originally by Quintillian)
- Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:
- (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
- (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
- to think of going back again the same career
Related terms
- careerism
- careerist
Translations
Verb
career (third-person singular simple present careers, present participle careering, simple past and past participle careered)
- To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
- Synonym: careen
- The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
Translations
Adjective
career (not comparable)
- Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”)
- a career criminal
- 2012, Arthur Gillard, Homelessness (page 38)
- Studies on homeless income find that the typical “career panhandler” who dedicates his time overwhelmingly to begging can make between $600 and $1,500 a month.
Further reading
- "career" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 52.
Scots
Etymology
From English career.
Noun
career (plural careers)
- career
career From the web:
- what career is right for me
- what career should i have
- what career is best for me
- what careers make the most money
- what careers are in demand
- what career fits me
- what career should i do
- what careers use geometry
role
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?l
- IPA(key): /???l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Homophone: roll
Etymology 1
From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll.
Alternative forms
- rôle
Noun
role (plural roles)
- A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
- The function or position of something.
- Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes
- (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
- 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2
- Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.
- 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2
- (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
Hyponyms
- subrole
Derived terms
- role-based
- roleless
- roleplay
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
role (plural roles)
- (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
References
- role on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, lore, orle, relo
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?rol?]
- Rhymes: -ol?
- Hyphenation: ro?le
Etymology 1
From German Rolle, from Old French rolle, role (“parchment scroll, inventory”), from Latin rotula, rotulus (“little wheel”), which is a diminutive of rota (“wheel”).
Noun
role f
- role, part (of an actor) [19th c.]
- lines (spoken text of an actor playing a part)
- role (e. g. of a person in a society)
- (linguistics) role (function of a constituent in a clause)
- scroll [19th c.]
Declension
Synonyms
- (of an actor): úloha, part
- (text): part
- (in a society): úloha
- (scroll): svitek
Derived terms
- roli?ka
Related terms
- rolovat
- roláda
Etymology 2
From Proto-Slavic *orl?ja, from*orati.
Noun
role f
- (obsolete, literary) field (area to grow crops) [14th c.]
- old unit of field measurement
- (obsolete, literary) area, domain (of activity)
Declension
Synonyms
- (in agriculture): pole
- (domain): obor, okruh
Derived terms
- roli?ka
Related terms
Anagrams
- orel, orle
Further reading
- role in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- role in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
References
Old French
Noun
role m (oblique plural roles, nominative singular roles, nominative plural role)
- roll; scroll (rolled up document)
Descendants
- ? English: roll
- French: rôle
- ? English: role
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (role, supplement)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?.l?/
Noun
role
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of rola
Further reading
- role in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Verb
role
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rolar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rolar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rolar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rolar
Spanish
Verb
role
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rolar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rolar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rolar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rolar.
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