different between potato vs vehicle

English

Alternative forms

• potatoe (obsolete)
• p'tater, tater (dialectal or informal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??te?.t??/, [p???t?e?t???]
• (General American) enPR: p?-t??t?, IPA^(key): /p??te?.to?/, [p???t?e??o?], [p???t?e???]
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Noun

potato (plural potatoes)

1. The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
2. (informal, Britain) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
3. Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
   1. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
   2. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
   3. (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

Synonyms

• (plant): p'tater (dialectal), spud (slang), tater (Britain, US, informal), tatie (Scotland, Cumbria, dialect), tator (eye dialect)
• (vegetable): Donovan (archaic slang), earthapple (rare), murphy, bog orange (obsolete slang), Irish apricot (obsolete slang), Irish fruit (obsolete slang), mickey

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

potato (comparative more potato, superlative most potato)

1. (computing, slang, humorous, of a computing device) Underpowered; low-end.

Anagrams

• patoot, topato

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English potato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, /p??ta.t?/

Noun

potato (plural potati)

1. potato

   Synonym: terpomo

Italian

Verb

potato m (feminine singular potata, masculine plural potati, feminine plural potate)

1. past participle of potare

Anagrams

• optato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po??ta?.to?/, [po??t?ä?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, [p??t???t??]

Verb

p?t?t?

1. second-person singular future active imperative of p?t?
2. third-person singular future active imperative of p?t?

Quotations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance”), from vehere (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?vi?.?.k?l/, /?v??.k?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?vi.?.k?l/, /?vi?(h)?.k?l/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?v??(?).k?l/
• Hyphenation: ve?hi?cle

Noun

vehicle (plural vehicles)

1. A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.
2. A medium for expression of talent or views.

3. A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.
4. (pharmaceuticals) The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.

5. An entity to achieve an end.

6. (Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
7. (Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits

Synonyms

• (Hinduism): vahan

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:vehicle

Derived terms

Related terms

• vector
• vectorial
• vectorize

Translations

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vehiculum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v??i.kl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b??i.kl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve?i.kle/

Noun

vehicle m (plural vehicles)

1. vehicle

Related terms

• vehicular

Further reading

• “vehicle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.