different between marry vs alright

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæ??/
• (General American) enPR: m?r??
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /?mæ?i/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /?m??i/, /?me?i/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æri
• Homophones: Mary, merry (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Hyphenation: mar?ry

Etymology 1

From Middle English marien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French marier, from Latin mar?t?re (“to wed”), from mar?tus (“husband, suitor”), from m?s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit ???? (márya, “suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), Crimean Gothic marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek ?????? (meîrax, “boy; girl”), Lithuanian martì (“bride”), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (maⁱriia, “yeoman”).) Displaced native Old English h?wian.

Verb

marry (third-person singular simple present marries, present participle marrying, simple past and past participle married)

1. (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]

   Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.

   • 1641, Evelyn, Diary, quoted in 1869 by Edward J. Wood in The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries, volume 2, page 241:

     Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] "

   • 1755, The Holy Bible, both Old and New Testament, Digested, Illustrated, and Explained, second edition, page 59:

     But Esau, being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the Hittites.

   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     If and when Suzy does marry, it will be an open marriage because she's a believer in the "totality" of freedom.
2. (intransitive, with dual subject) To enter into marriage with one another.

   Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.

3. (transitive) To take as husband or wife. [from 15th c.]

   In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.

   His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.

4. (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIII:

     The kyngdome of heven is lyke unto a certayne kinge, which maryed his sonne [...].

   He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.

5. (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. [from 16th c.]

   A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.

   • 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It?

     Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.
6. (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.

   There's a big gap here. These two parts don't marry properly.

   I can't connect it, because the plug doesn't marry with the socket.

7. (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union. [from 15th c.]

   The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.

   • 2006, Lisa C. Hickman, William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers

     For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression.

8. (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
9. (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.

Synonyms

Antonyms

• divorce

Derived terms

Related terms

• marriage

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English Marie, referring to Mary, the Virgin Mary. Mid-14th century.

Interjection

marry!

1. (obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 2,^[1]

     I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.

See also

• wed

References

Further reading

• Marriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• all right
• aight (AAVE, UK)
• awright
• oright

Etymology

From all +? right. Compare Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”), equivalent to al- (“all”) +? right.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l??a?t/, /???a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Adjective

alright (not comparable)

1. (often proscribed) Alternative form of all right; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order.

   Synonyms: acceptable, adequate, fine; see also Thesaurus:satisfactory

   • 1662 : Cantus, songs and fancies, to three, four, or five parts, both apt for voices and viols : with a brief introduction to musick, as is taught by Thomas Davidson, in the Musick-School of Aberdene by Thomas Davidson, iii. sig. B/1

     Where ever I go, both to and fro

     You have my heart alright.

   • 1922 : Ulysses by James Joyce, chapter 18

     …if I went by his advices every blessed hat I put on does that suit me yes take that thats alright the one like a wedding cake standing up miles off my head…

   • 1932 : "Goodbye, Christ" by Langston Hughes

     You did alright in your day, I reckon—

     But that day's gone now.

   • 1939 : Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, chapter 1.40

     Bladyughfoulmoecklenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornanennykocksapastippatappatupperstrippuckputtanach, eh? You have it alright.

   • 2000 : House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, page 105

     "You're alright Johnny," she said in a way that actually made him feel alright. At least for a little while.

Interjection

alright

1. (informal) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK.
2. (Britain, informal) A generic greeting; hello; how are you.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hello

Related terms

• (greeting): alright me babber, alright me lover

Derived terms

• alrighty

Usage notes

• Some distinguish between alright and all right by using alright to mean "fine, good, okay" and all right to mean "all correct". Alternatively (or in addition to the previous), Alright may be used as an interjection akin to "OK", whilst all right is used in the sense of "unharmed, healthy".
• The contracted term is considered nonstandard by Garner's Modern American Usage and American Heritage Dictionary. Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that although analogous forms exist in words such as already, altogether, and always, "the contracted form is strongly criticized in the vast majority of usage guides, but without cogent reasons". The Oxford Dictionaries also conclude that "alright remains nonstandard" and that it is "still regarded as being unacceptable in formal writing". Other dictionaries and style manuals also consider it incorrect or less correct than all right.

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: oraait

References