different between lighter vs casco

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?la?t?/, [?la???]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?la?t?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: light?er

Etymology 1

light (“pale”) +? -er (“comparative”)

Adjective

lighter

1. comparative form of light: more light

Etymology 2

light (“ignite”) +? -er (“agent”)

Noun

lighter (plural lighters)

1. One who, or that which, lights.

2. A small, reusable handheld device for creating fire, especially for lighting cigarettes.

Translations

Etymology 3

light (“unload, lighten”) +? -er (“agent”); or possibly from Middle Low German luchter

Noun

lighter (plural lighters)

1. A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).

Translations

Verb

lighter (third-person singular simple present lighters, present participle lightering, simple past and past participle lightered)

1. To transfer (cargo or passengers) to or from a ship by means of a lighter or other small vessel.
   • 1900. Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War with Spain. Vol. 7, pg. 3227.

     Troops and stores were lightered to the wharves inside the harbor by steamers Orizaba and Berkshire.

2. To transfer cargo or fuel from (a ship), lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.

Conjugation

Etymology 4

light (“not heavy, weak”) +? -er (“comparative”)

Adjective

lighter

1. comparative form of light: more light

Anagrams

• relight

English

Noun

casco (plural cascos)

1. (nautical) A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore

Anagrams

• Cocas, SACCO, cocas, socca

Catalan

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative form of cascar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casco

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?s.k??/
• Hyphenation: cas?co

Noun

casco n (uncountable)

1. shell of a building, car or ship

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 13th century. Back-formation from cascar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kasko?/

Noun

casco m (plural cascos)

1. casque; helmet; skull
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 639:

     en guisa que llj tallou o almofar da loriga cõ h?a muy grã peça do casco

     in such a way that he cut the mail aventail together with a large piece of the casque [or skull]

   • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

     eu quero mal à esta jente / einos de por en talladas / esfarelandoll'os cascos / do corpo sacarll'as almas

     I wish ill these people / I'll make slices of them / crushing them helmets [or skulls] / from them bodies I'll take out them souls

   Synonyms: capacete, helmo

2. hard hat
3. (nautical) hulk; hull
4. shell; husk
5. hoof
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 147:

     Quando o Cauallo ouver peeira deuen lle allinpar moy ben as huñas so as sollas do fondo do pee ataa que fique o casco moy sotil

     When the horse is ill in its foot they should clean the hoofs, down under the sole of the feet, till the hoof is very subtle

   Synonym: pezuño

6. empty bottle
7. bark of tree

   Synonyms: casca, cortiza, tona

8. bran

   Synonym: casulo

Derived terms

• casquete
• cascón

Related terms

• casca
• cascar

References

• “casco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “casco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “casco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “casco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “casco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?sko?]
• Hyphenation: cas?co
• Rhymes: -ko?

Noun

casco (plural cascók)

1. (automotive) collision damage waiver
2. (automotive) theft protection insurance

   Synonym: gépjárm?-biztosítás (vehicle insurance in a broader sense)

Usage notes

This type of insurance does not necessarily include liability insurance, travel insurance of the passengers, or any other kind of insurance (such as for personal effects carried in the vehicle), although it may be supplemented with them, depending on individual plans or packages.

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Spanish casco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kas.ko/

Noun

casco m (plural caschi)

1. helmet
2. crash helmet
3. hair dryer
4. (collective) bunch (of bananas)

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascare

Anagrams

• cosca, sacco

Portuguese

Etymology

Back-formation from cascar.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kas.ku/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ka?.ku/
• Hyphenation: cas?co

Noun

casco m (plural cascos)

1. skull, cranium
2. (nautical) hull
3. hoof, tip of a toe of ungulates
4. shell (of a turtle)

Spanish

Etymology

From the verb cascar (“to split”), from Latin quass? (“shake, strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kasko/, [?kas.ko]
• Hyphenation: cas?co

Noun

casco m (plural cascos)

1. helmet
2. crown (top part of a hat)
3. (nautical) hulk (unused ship)
4. (nautical) hull (frame or body of a boat or ship)
5. the foot of a horse; a hoof

   Synonym: pezuña

6. the city center
7. shard
8. potsherd
9. head (of an alcoholic beverage)
10. hull of a vegetable
11. vat, barrel
12. saddle tree
13. empty container, e.g. bottle or barrel.
14. (used in plural) headphones

Related terms

• casco antiguo
• casco trincado
• ligero de cascos
• cascote
• cáscara
• cascar

Descendants

• ? Catalan: casc
• ? German: Kasko
• ? French: casque
• ? Italian: casco
• ? Piedmontese: casch

Verb

casco

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cascar.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cacos
• cocas