lack

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

Verb

1. (stative, transitive) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
2. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
4. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
5. To be off one's guard.

Teenoorgestelde van

glut, surplus, plethora

Sinonieme

shortage

deficiency

want

absence

scarcity

need

shortcoming

dearth

miss

deficit

defect

insufficiency

short of

flaw

poverty

be short of

privation

inadequacy

be missing

be short

shortfall

not have

gap

be absent

require

vacancy

without

scantiness

deprivation

failure

lack of

fail

be deficient

be in need of

be lacking

shortness

indigence

destitution

absent

I don’t have

requirement

paucity

omission

missing

scantness

few

🤏

fault

famine

failing

default

Vertalings

manquer

manque

Mangel

mancare

mancanza

falta

fehlen

faltar

gebrek

carencia

carecer

entbehren

ontberen

missen

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/læk/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: lack

Geërf van Old English: *læc

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Lak

Verwante met Middle Low German: lack

Verwante met Nederlands: lak

Verwante met Yslands: lakur

Verwante met Middle Dutch: laken

Geërf van Middle English: lacken

Geërf van Old English: læccian

Verwante met Old Frisian: lakia

Verwante met Middle Low German: lacken

Verwante met Nederlands: laken

In summary

From Middle English lack, lakke, lak, from Old English *læc (“deficiency, lack, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *lak, from Proto-Germanic *laką, *lakaz (“slackness”), from Proto-Germanic *lakaz (“limp, slack, loose, low”), related to *lak(k)ōną (“to blame, reproach”), from Proto-Indo-European *lok-néh₂-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lak (“lack”), Middle Low German lack, lak (“lack”), Dutch lak (“lack, deficiency, calumny”), Icelandic lakur (“lacking”). Related also to Middle Dutch laken (“to blame, lack”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English carence (“absence, lack”), from Old French carence.

Sinne

The lack of more than two shutter speeds was not a problem .