different between family vs calibre
family
- See Wiktionary:Families for a guide to language families within Wiktionary
English
Etymology
From Early Modern English familie (not in Middle English), from Latin familia (“the servants in a household, domestics collectively”), from famulus (“servant”) or famula (“female servant”), from Old Latin famul, of obscure origin. Perhaps derived from or cognate to Oscan famel (“servant”). Doublet of familia. Displaced native Old English h?red.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fæm(?)li/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fæm(?)li/, /?fæm?li/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?f?m(?)li/
- Hyphenation: fa?mi?ly, fam?ily
Noun
family (countable and uncountable, plural families)
- (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- 1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America
- (countable) Synonym of family member (an individual who belongs to one's family).
- (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- (uncountable, taxonomy) lineage, especially an honorable one
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
- Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- Synonym: familia
- (countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
- 2010, Gary Shelly, Jennifer Campbell, Ollie Rivers, Microsoft Expression Web 3: Complete (page 262)
- When creating a font family, first decide whether to use all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose two or three fonts of that type […]
- 2010, Gary Shelly, Jennifer Campbell, Ollie Rivers, Microsoft Expression Web 3: Complete (page 262)
- (set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
- (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- Used attributively.
Usage notes
- In some dialects, family is used as a plural (only) noun.
Synonyms
- (relatives): flesh and blood, kin, kinfolk
- (class): Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
- (relatives): nuclear family, immediate family, extended family
- (computing): C family
Descendants
- Jamaican Creole: faambli, fambili
- Tok Pisin: famili
- ? Chuukese: famini
- ? Malay: famili
- ? Maori: wh?mere
Translations
Adjective
family (not comparable)
- Suitable for children and adults.
- Conservative, traditional.
- (slang) Homosexual.
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
- Category:Family
- (taxonomy, rank):
- domain
- kingdom
- phylum/division
- class
- order
- superfamily
- family
- subfamily, tribe
- genus
- species
Further reading
- family on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Family (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Family of sets on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Family (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- family at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “family”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- “family” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- family in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "family" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 1.
- family in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- family in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
family From the web:
- what family is hydrogen in
- what family is chlorine in
- what family is sodium in
- what family is the piano in
- what family is calcium in
- what family is the fox in
- what family is carbon in
- what family is oxygen in
calibre
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kæl.?.b?/
- Hyphenation: cal?i?ber
Noun
calibre (countable and uncountable, plural calibres)
- Alternative form of caliber
Usage notes
- More common than caliber in UK, etc
Related terms
- calibrate
Anagrams
- caliber
French
Etymology
From Arabic ??????? (q?lib).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.lib?/
Noun
calibre m (plural calibres)
- calibre
Descendants
Verb
calibre
- first-person singular present indicative of calibrer
- third-person singular present indicative of calibrer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of calibrer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of calibrer
- second-person singular imperative of calibrer
Further reading
- “calibre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- ciblera
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /k??lib??/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka??ib?i/
Noun
calibre m (plural calibres)
- caliber / calibre (dimension)
- gauge (mathematics, physics)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?lib?e/, [ka?li.???e]
Etymology 1
From French calibre.
Noun
calibre m (plural calibres)
- calibre
- calipers
- jig, gauge (tool)
Derived terms
- calibrar
Descendants
- ? Tagalog: kalibre
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
calibre
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of calibrar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calibrar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calibrar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of calibrar.
Further reading
- “calibre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
calibre From the web:
- what calibre is 9mm
- what calibre is a glock 17
- what calibre is a desert eagle
- what calibre is an ak 47
- what calibre is a 1911
- what calibre is the m1 carbine
- what calibre is m1 garand
- what calibre is a walther ppk
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- family vs calibre
- remembrance vs witness
- migratory vs vagrant
- formation vs beginning
- signature vs term
- terrible vs depraved
- adapt vs regulate
- unambiguously vs comprehensibly
- sound vs reverberation
- luminescent vs flaming
- easy vs unhurried
- expertly vs deftly
- gleeful vs airy
- chunk vs shred
- passionate vs blithe
- silently vs speechlessly
- direction vs conducting
- splotch vs mark
- precariousness vs shakiness
- convenience vs resource