different between chisel vs incise

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??z?l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English chisel, chesel, borrowed from Old Northern French chisel, from Vulgar Latin *cisellum, from *caesellum, from Latin caesus, past participle of caedere (“to cut”).

Noun

chisel (plural chisels)

1. A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end.

Translations

See also

• burin
• gouge
• graver

Verb

chisel (third-person singular simple present chisels, present participle chiseling or chiselling, simple past and past participle chiseled or chiselled)

1. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
2. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.

3. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

Usage notes

chiselling and chiselled are more common in the UK while chiseling and chiseled are more common in the US.

Derived terms

• chiseler, chiseller
• chisel in on

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ?eosol, ?eosel, ?ysel, ?isel, ?isil (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kisil (“small stone, pebble”). See also chessom.

Alternative forms

• chesil
• chissel, chessil (dialectal)

Noun

chisel (usually uncountable, plural chisels)

1. Gravel.
2. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.

Related terms

• chessom

Further reading

• chisel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• chisel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• chisel at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Schlei, chiels, chiles, elchis, lechis, liches, sichel

Middle English

Alternative forms

• chesel

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman chisel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??i?s??l/, /?t??is?l/, /?t??e?s?l/

Noun

chisel (plural chisels)

1. Any of several cutting tools used by stone masons.

Descendants

• English: chisel
• Yola: chisool

References

• “chis??l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Noun

chisel m (oblique plural chiseaus or chiseax or chisiaus or chisiax or chisels, nominative singular chiseaus or chiseax or chisiaus or chisiax or chisels, nominative plural chisel)

1. Alternative form of cisel

English

Alternative forms

• encise

Etymology

From Middle French inciser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?sa?z/

Verb

incise (third-person singular simple present incises, present participle incising, simple past and past participle incised)

1. (transitive) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• incised on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• scenii

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.siz/

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of proposition incise.

Noun

incise f (plural incises)

1. (grammar) A part of a sentence, set between em dashes.

Etymology 2

Verb

incise

1. first-person singular present indicative of inciser
2. third-person singular present indicative of inciser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of inciser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of inciser
5. second-person singular imperative of inciser

Italian

Verb

incise

1. plural of inciso
2. third-person singular past historic of incidere

Anagrams

• censii
• cinesi, Cinesi

Latin

Participle

inc?se

1. vocative masculine singular of inc?sus

References

• incise in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• incise in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incise in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

incise

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