lack

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Conceptes

manca

mancar

falta

mancança

no tenir

faltar

escassedat

ser mancat

estar mancat

ser desproveït

estar desproveït

pobresa

carestia

escassetat

fretura

carència

Oposat a

glut, surplus, plethora

Sinònims

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

Traduccions

manquer

manque

mancanza

Mangel

mancare

fehlen

falta

faltar

gebrek

carencia

carecer

entbehren

ontberen

missen

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/læk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: lack

Heretat de anglès antic: *læc

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Lak

Cognat amb Middle Low German: lack

Cognat amb neerlandès: lak

Cognat amb islandès: lakur

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: laken

Heretat de anglès mitjà: lacken

Heretat de anglès antic: læccian

Cognat amb Old Frisian: lakia

Cognat amb Middle Low German: lacken

Cognat amb neerlandès: 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.

Frases

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