average
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
law
lifestyle
mathematics
nautical
sciences
sports
statistics
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic عَوَار (ʕawār)
Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)
Proto-Afroasiatic *-t
Proto-Semitic *-at-
Arabic ـَة (-a)
Arabic ـِيَّة (-iyya)
Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya)bor.?
Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *haβēō
Latin habēre
Old Italian avére
Old Italian -ìa
?
Old Italian avariabor.
Old French avarie
Middle French avarie
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English average
Not entirely certain. The oldest meaning in English is “customs duty”. Borrowed from Middle French avarie (“damage to ship or cargo”), from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria where it is first attested in the 12th century in the context of Mediterranean trade. From there most sources trace it to Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya, “damaged goods”), from عَوَار (ʕawār, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, “to lose an eye”), but the OED gives it a Romance derivation from Italian avere (“property, goods”) or the like.
The English suffix -age was added in analogy to words like damage.
Inflected forms:
form: averages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more average
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most average
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: av.
pos: adj
tags: abbreviation
form: ave.
pos: adj
tags: abbreviation
form: avg.
pos: adj
tags: abbreviation
form: averages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: averaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: averaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: averaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
pos: noun
examples: You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.
In conclusion, it may savour of anticlimax to mention that from May 22 the famous "Sud Express," over the same route, has been covering the 359.7 miles from Paris Austerlitz to Bordeaux in 4 hr. 59 min. daily, at a start-to-stop average of 72.2 m.p.h., and that the northbound train has been taking 5 hr. 7 min. for an average of 70.3.
gloss: Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
pos: noun
examples: The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
gloss: A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
pos: noun
examples: Historically, the courts have allowed a general average claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril.[…]The court awarded the carrier the general average claim. It noted that “a ship′s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general average.
gloss: A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
pos: noun
examples: batting average
gloss: Constituting or relating to the average.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The average age of the participants was 18.5.
gloss: Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
pos: adj
examples: I soon found I was only an average chess player.
gloss: Typical.
pos: adj
examples: The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.
Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.
In other words, highly attractive people like highly attractive communicators and more average people like more average communicators.
gloss: Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average. However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.
But what the vast majority of the populace doesn′t realise is the fact that he′s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he′s only a very average attorney.
In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.
gloss: To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you average 10, 20, and 24, you get 18.
gloss: Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.
The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.
This comes after the center topped the charts last year, becoming the first player at the position since four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal to win the scoring title and the first center to average over 30 PPG in 40 years – Embiid averaged 30.6.
gloss: To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to average a loss
gloss: To be, generally or on average.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]
Derived words: average access time
average bear
average frustrated chump
average Joe
averagely
averageness
average seek time
daily average revenue trades
ensemble average
unaverage
underaverage
average down
average out
average up
averageable
unaveraged
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُعَدَّل
roman: muʕaddal
lang: Arabic
word: مُتَوَسِّط
roman: mutawasseṭ
lang: Arabic
word: معدل
roman: mu'adal
lang: Basque
word: batezbesteko
lang: Bulgarian
word: средно
roman: sredno
lang: Finnish
word: keskiarvo
lang: Hungarian
word: átlag
lang: Indonesian
word: nilai rerata
lang: Indonesian
word: rata-rata
lang: Japanese
word: 平均
roman: heikin
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ڕادەی ئاسایی
roman: radey asayî
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Derchschnett
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: meadhan
lang: Telugu
word: సగటు
roman: sagaṭu
lang: Telugu
word: సరాసరి
roman: sarāsari