From en.wiktionary.org:
[Uniform]
** Translingual
frameless
*** Noun
[mul]
1. [mul] [of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet] .
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en], from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [yo͞oʹnĭ-fôrm] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Unvarying ; all the same .
2. * [en]
3. Consistent ; conform ing to one standard .
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1593 | author=w:Richard Hooker | chapter=Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity | year_published=1830 | title=The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker | pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SeAOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA313&dq=%22how+far+churches+are+bound+to+be+uniform+in+their+ceremonies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijxIe_05jNAhWDppQKHaqqBFsQ6AEIYjAM#v=onepage&q=%22how%20far%20churches%20are%20bound%20to%20be%20uniform%20in%20their%20ceremonies%22&f=false | page=313
|passage=The only doubt is, about the manner of their unity; how far Churches
are bound to be UNIFORM in their Ceremonies, and what way they ought to take
for that purpose.}}
1. [en] with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity , uniform convergence
2. [en] Composed of a single macromolecular species .
3. [en] ( _of a polyhedron_ ) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygon s; ( _of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope_ ) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facet s are UNIFORM polytopes.
**** Usage notes
- As a description of polymers, the IUPAC prefers the term _uniform_ to _monodisperse_ .
**** Synonyms
- [unvarying] [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:steady
- [all the same] [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:homogeneous
**** Antonyms
- [all the same] [en]
- [en]
- [en] , [en] ; Thesaurus:multiform
**** Coordinate terms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[unvarying]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da] [in time]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] [in time] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[consistent]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Korean: [ko]
- Manx: [gv]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Mandarin: [cmn] , [cmn]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group , company , prison inmate s, etc.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1932 | author=Elmer Wheeler | title=Tested Selling Sentences (the Language of the Brain): Master Book
|passage=The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an
apron.<br>This is the latest in UNIFORMS, madam, according to Vogue.}}
1. * [chapter=6]
2. * F. W. Robertson
3. *: There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his UNIFORM .
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-07-19 | author=w:Peter Wilby
|volume=189|issue=6|page=30|magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly |title=Finland
spreads word on schools (see
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/jul/01/education-michael-gove-finland-gcse)
|passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start
compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend
comprehensives until the age of 16.[...]There are no inspectors, no exams
until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no
school UNIFORMS. […]}}
1. [en] [mul] [from the [NATO Phonetic Alphabet] .]
2. [en] A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective ).
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1996 | author=S. J. Rozan | title=Concourse | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OkUjLMexL70C | page=265 | publisher=Macmillan | isbn=0-312-95944-3
|passage=Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between
himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped.
Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three UNIFORMS and I watched helpless as Skeletor,
dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the
hill.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2001 | author=Christine Wiltz | title=The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=a3Uoh6Riv5QC | page=113 | publisher=Da Capo Press | isbn=0-306-81012-3
|passage=Four men flew out of it, three UNIFORMS and one in what appeared to
be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. [...] He
called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2004 | author=w:Will Christopher Baer | title=Penny Dreadful | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=hmoFRsTGQ_YC | page=81 | publisher=MacAdam/Cage Publishing | isbn=1-931561-81-8
|passage=Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and
brown. Moon counted three UNIFORMS and a photographer, the medical examiner
and his assistant.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] [military, also] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] [military]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] [school uniform]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] [military]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] , [ms] [archaic]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] [school uniform] , [pl] [rare]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [military, also] , [ru] [military, also]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] [military, also]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To clothe in a uniform.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1910 | author=Robert W. Chambers | title=Ailsa Paige | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11904
|passage=You can't erect an army by UNIFORMING and drilling a few hundred
thousand clerks and farmers.}}
**** Translations
[to clothe in a uniform]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl], from [nl].
*** Pronunciation 1
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Noun
[n]
1. uniform ; a distinctive outfit [from 18th c.]
***** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
***** Descendants
- [af]
*** Pronunciation 2
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Adjective
[nl-adj]
1. uniform [from 16th c.]
***** Declension
[nl-decl-adj]
***** Derived terms
{{col|nl |uniformiteit }}
***** Descendants
- [af]
[nl]
** Norwegian Bokmål
[lang=no]
*** Noun
[nb]
1. a [en]
[nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
[lang=nn]
*** Noun
[nn]
1. a [en]
[nn]
** Polish
*** Etymology
[pl] [pl].
*** Pronunciation
[a=LL-Q809 (pol)-Poemat-uniform.wav]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [pl] [en]
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-in]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
[pl]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Pronunciation
- [ro]
*** Adjective
[4]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[ro-adj-4]
**** Related terms
[ro]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Noun
[c]
1. Uniform ; a distinctive outfit.
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
*** References
- [saob] (noun)
- [saob] (adjective)