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.

Concepten

gebrek

missen

ontberen

gemis

tekort

derven

euvel

tekortkoming

afwezigheid

manco

mankement

ontbreken

niet habben

afwezig zijn

deficit

mankeren

ontbering

schelen

schorten

deficiëntie

deprivatie

derving

mangelen

gebrek hebben

Tegenovergesteld aan

glut, surplus, plethora

Synoniemen

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

Vertalingen

manquer

manque

mancare

Mangel

mancanza

falta

fehlen

faltar

carencia

carecer

entbehren

défaut

falta

insuffisance

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/læk/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: lack

Overgenomen van Oudengels: *læc

Verwant aan Saterfries: Lak

Verwant aan Middle Low German: lack

Verwant aan Nederlands: lak

Verwant aan IJslands: lakur

Verwant aan Middelnederlands: laken

Overgenomen van Middelengels: lacken

Overgenomen van Oudengels: læccian

Verwant aan Old Frisian: lakia

Verwant aan Middle Low German: lacken

Verwant aan 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.

Zinnen

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

Het ontbreken van meer dan twee sluitertijden was geen probleem.