lack

(Inglês)

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.

Oposto de

glut, surplus, plethora

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/læk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: lack

Herdado de inglês arcaico: *læc

Cognato com Saterfriesisch: Lak

Cognato com Middle Low German: lack

Cognato com holandês: lak

Cognato com islandês: lakur

Cognato com holandês médio: laken

Herdado de inglês médio: lacken

Herdado de inglês arcaico: læccian

Cognato com Old Frisian: lakia

Cognato com Middle Low German: lacken

Cognato com holandês: 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.

Conceitos

falta

carência

carecer

falha

faltar

deficiência

necessitar

ter falta de

escassez

não ter

precisar

ter carência de

ausência

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

manquer

manque

Mangel

mancare

mancanza

falta

fehlen

faltar

gebrek

brak

carencia

carecer

entbehren

ontberen

missen

Frases

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

A falta de mais de duas velocidades do obturador não foi um problema.