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Definitions: Ease |
EaseNoun1. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort: "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation". 2. A freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state: "a life of luxury and ease"; "he had all the material comforts of this world". 3. The condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress); "he enjoyed his relief from responsibility"; "getting it off his conscience gave him some ease". 4. Freedom from constraint or embarrassment; "I am never at ease with strangers". 5. Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool". Verb1. Move gently or carefully; "He eased himself into the chair". 2. Ease physically. 3. Make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge". 4. Lessen the intensity of; calm; as of of anxieties and fears. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ease" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | Ease General purpose parallel programming language, combining the process constructs of CSP and the distributed data structures of Linda. "Programming with Ease: Semiotic Definition of the Language", S.E. Zenith, |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EASE | English | European Association for Special Education | N/A |
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Synonyms: EaseSynonyms: easiness (n), informality (n), relaxation (n), relief (n), repose (n), rest (n), simplicity (n), allay (v), alleviate (v), comfort (v), facilitate (v), relieve (v), still (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: difficulty (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Content | Noun: content, contentment, contentedness; complacency, satisfaction, entire satisfaction, ease, heart's ease, peace of mind; serenity; cheerfulness; ray of comfort; comfort; (well-being). |
Elegance | Noun: elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness; Adjective: concinnity, euphony, numerosity; Atticism, classicalism, classicism. |
Facility | Noun: facility, ease; easiness; Adjective: capability; feasibility; (practicability); flexibility, pliancy; smoothness. |
Render easy; Adjective: facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten, lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage; deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot, cut the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate; humor; (aid); lubricate; relieve. | |
Leisure | Noun: leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours, spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands; holiday, relaxation; (rest); otium cum dignitate, ease. |
Physical Pleasure | Noun: pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness. Adjective: dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow. (support); luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe. (intemperance). |
Pleasure | Well-being; good; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion; sans souci, mind at ease. |
Relief | Verb: relieve, ease, alleviate, mitigate, palliate, soothe; salve; soften, soften down; foment, stupe, poultice; assuage, allay. |
State | Noun: state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect; (appearance), dilemma, pass, predicament. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You told me you were going to ease up. (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner) Well, if it will ease your passing, I'll lay ten guineas for her. (Rob Roy; writing credit: Alan Sharp) Billy, you are dealing with the oddity of time travel with the greatest of ease! (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; writing credit: Chris Matheson; Ed Solomon) You guys need to really to ease up with the whole dating demons thing. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Mr Kim At ease, before you sprain something. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) | |
Lyrics | Layla, darlin, won't you ease my worried mind ("Layla"; performing artist: Derek & The Dominos) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ladies at Ease (1927) At Ease (1927) Give My Poor Heart Ease (1975) | |
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![]() | Hogs wallow to ease heat in Culhain County, GA.Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Here English beef and pudding lolls at ease,... / [John Collier] Thos. Sanders sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. |
John Barbour | Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. |
John Dryden | Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. |
Miguel de Cervantes | The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. |
Ovid | Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. |
Samuel Rutherford | You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. |
William Cowper | A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. |
| The life of ease is a difficult pursuit. | |
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John Locke | 1690 | The people generally ill treated, and contrary to right, will be ready upon any occasion to ease themselves of a burden that sits heavy upon them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | their luxury and ease. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | [Arthur Dent] was about thirty as well, dark haired and never quite at ease with himself. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | I had spent the better part of the night at the bedside of the worshipful Governor Winthrop, doing what my poor skill might to give him ease. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He treated Javert as he did everybody else, at ease and with kindness. |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A short loud laugh from Mr Tate set the class more at ease. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | But Uncle John sat uneasily, his lonely haunted eyes were not at ease, and his thin strong body was not relaxed. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | During this time they are much visited by their friends, because they cannot go abroad with their usual ease and satisfaction. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some medicines may ease tinnitus. (references) | |
Jaw exercises may help ease this problem. (references) | ||
Surgery can often ease pain and help manage complications. (references) | ||
Business | These results partly reflect the ease of access to electricity markets in the UK by new entrants. (references) | |
They represent 70% of the mobile phone market and are chosen because of their ease and availability. (references) | ||
The ease of use and prompt response to consumer financing needs are the key strengths of this approach. (references) | ||
Children | Slovenia | Modifications of public and private structures to ease access by the disabled continued, although at a slow pace. (references) |
Malaysia | In addition the federal budget for the year included several provisions to ease financial burdens on persons with disabilities and improve work, education, and training opportunities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Latvia | The visa application process still is cumbersome; however, difficulties in this area diminished, and Citizenship and Migration Department officials have worked to ease the situation. (references) |
Economic History | Colombia | As of March 2001, the crisis continued to ease. (references) |
Netherlands | Shipments to any point in the country can reach their destination with ease. (references) | |
Spain | Usually they are designed to help ease the initial operations of direct investment. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | JLP and PNP officials cooperated to ease tensions in the community. (references) |
Pakistan | The Musharraf Government made some attempts to ease some of the previous government's restrictions on NGO's. (references) | |
Malaysia | In August the Commission released a report calling on the Government to ease restrictions and review laws on public assembly. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Thailand | The new regulations ease the requirements to establish citizenship by allowing a wider range of evidence, including testimony from references, and empowering local officials to decide cases. (references) |
Minorities | Uganda | Some officials of "mainstream" Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim religious organizations have called for the closure of Christian churches, which are viewed as "cults." The general assembly of the Ugandan Joint Christian Council (UJCC), a religious body composed of Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox Churches that has engaged in election activities including civic education and monitoring, referred applications for membership to the association by other spiritual and Pentecostal churches to the UJCC executive, which could help ease tensions between those churches and evangelical groups. (references) |
Political Economy | NETHERLANDS | Inflation is forecast to ease to 2.5 percent in 2002. (references) |
Trade | Netherlands | Bonded warehouse facilities of any size can be arranged with ease. (references) |
Luxembourg | American companies should consider these developments (harmonized standards, duties, VAT, etc.) as features that facilitate their access into the EU Single Market and will ease the process of doing business in a regional market. (references) | |
Thailand | Besides the local commercial, trade, and corporate financing facilities available from local banks, the Thai government maintains facilities, such as direct packing credit, to ease exporters' access to trade financing . The Thai EXIM Bank, Asian Development Bank, Japanese EXIM Bank, and the U.S. Export Import Bank also have trade financing facilities. (references) | |
Travel | Netherlands | Consumers must also be attracted to the product by label and packaging as well as ease of use. (references) |
Bangladesh | Bangladeshi business executives are usually very courteous, and try to make their foreign guests feel at ease. (references) | |
Netherlands | Fax machines and E-mail have increased the speed and ease of international communications and should be used to maintain strong business ties. (references) | |
Women | Sri Lanka | While the Penal Code may ease some of the problems faced by victims of sexual assault, many women's organizations believe that greater sensitization of police and judicial officials is required. (references) |
Worker Rights | Venezuela | An underdeveloped legal framework, corruption among immigration authorities, and the ease with which fraudulent Venezuelan passports, identity cards, and birth certificates are obtained create favorable conditions for trafficking. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread -- a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Julia Child | If I'm perfectly at ease with what I've done, I'm delighted, and if I'm not very much at ease, then I'm nervous a bit. |
Samantha Geimer | We were just talking. It is kind of a long drive. I was feeling a little more at ease and he seemed a little more pleasant than the first time. So it didn't take long for me to get comfortable with him. |
Tom Ridge | Exactly. Their own iris scan, fingerprint scan, facial recognition, so that it might ease their pass through the gate and onto the airplane. Again, strictly talking to them on a voluntary capacity, but it does make some sense. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | From a respect, indeed, to economy and the ease of my fellow citizens belonging to the militia, it would have gratified me to accomplish such an estimate. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | As some of the injuries done us have become intolerable we have still been clear that we wished nothing for ourselves that we were not ready to demand for all mankind--fair dealing, justice, the freedom to live and to be at ease against organized wrong. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | The employment opportunities thus offered will also go far to ease the transition from war to peace. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Prudence and good sense do require, however, that new steps be taken to ease the payments deficit and prevent any gold crisis. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Cyrus Vance, and others helped to ease this tension. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I do not offer a life of uninspiring ease. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We must revise our tax system both to ease the burden of heavy taxation and to encourage the investment necessary for the creation of productive jobs for all Americans who want to work. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | For every good which you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | In the meantime, the challenge of government is to identify the things that we can do now to ease the massive economic transition for the American people. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | There are those in Congress who would ease that discipline now. |
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| "Ease" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.85% of the time. "Ease" is used about 2,954 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 63.85% | 1,886 | 4,530 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 31.35% | 926 | 7,784 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.02% | 119 | 29,501 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.74% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (common) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,954 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ease": a life of ease ♦ at ease ♦ at one's ease ♦ be at ease ♦ be ill at ease ♦ chapel of ease ♦ ease ahead ♦ ease away ♦ ease II ♦ ease of access ♦ ease of manner ♦ ease off ♦ ease oneself ♦ ease pain ♦ ease smb. of his purse ♦ ease smb.'s mind ♦ ease smth. along ♦ ease the pain ♦ ease up ♦ feel at ease ♦ feel ill at ease ♦ ill at ease ♦ Interjection: stand at ease ♦ love of ease ♦ mind at ease ♦ put him at his ease ♦ set at ease ♦ set one's mind at ease ♦ set smb.'s mind at ease ♦ stand at ease ♦ supreme ease ♦ take one's ease ♦ To ease a ship ♦ To ease away ♦ To ease off ♦ To ease the helm ♦ To set at ease ♦ To stand at ease ♦ with ease. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ease": ease-of, ease-of-use, ease-water. | |
Ending with "ease": dis-ease, ill-at-ease. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ease | 153 |
frizz ease | 86 |
radiohead at ease | 54 |
ease postal | 48 |
ease.com it say | 43 |
expert ease | 34 |
anal ease | 23 |
ease flesch reading | 19 |
trip ease | 17 |
ease enzyme | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), zbus (allay, amortise, amortize, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, calm down, domesticate, macerate, propitiate, relax, soften), shkujdesje (carelessness, disregard, improvidence, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, laxity, lightness, negligence, thoughtlessness, unconcern, untidiness), rehati (comfort, easement), qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, cool down, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), qetësi (calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, dispassion, equanimity, imperturbability, keep quiet, languor, mum, order, peace, placidity, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, serenity, shut up, silence, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity, unconcern), liroj (acquit, cast off, cheapen, detach, discharge, disengage, dismiss, excuse, free, free oneself, let go, let loose, liberate, loose, loosen, pay, pay out, relax, release, slack, slacken, unbind, unstring, vacate), liri (freedom, liberty, loose, looseness), lehtësi (airiness, boon, convenience, easiness, ethereality, facility, Favor, favour, lightness), lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter), çlodhje (diversion, recreation, recuperation, refreshment, relaxation, reposal, repose, rest). (various references) | |
Arabic | هدوء (calm, calmness, composure, countenance, dispassion, philosophy, placidity, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, remission, silence, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity), هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quench, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), حرر من القلق, سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, fall, gentle, habitation, hostel, house, hut, kill, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, palliate, place, qualify, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, repose, residence, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, stay, still, supple, tenant), سهل (ease off, easy, even, expedite, facilitate, favor, favour, flat, frail, get-at-able, plain, quite simple, simple, slick, smooth, soft), سهولة (breeze, easiness, facility, freedom, perspicacity, readiness), طبيعة (complexion, kind, nature, quality), أراح (refresh, relieve), راحة (comfort, cosiness, grace, leisure, letup, lie, pause, recuperation, relief, repose, rest, stop). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, compose, conciliate, cool, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), успокоение (assuagement, reassurance, relief, salve), удобство (accommodation, convenience, cosiness, utility), свободно време (disengagement, leeway, leisure, leisure time, spare time), свобода (freedom, glibness, independence, liberty, loose, margin, play, unconstraint), спокойствие (calm, calmness, composure, countenance, easiness, immovability, impassivity, imperturbability, peace, placidity, poise, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, security, serenity, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity), спадам (decline, decrease, deflate, dip, ease off, ebb, fall, lower, recede, sag, sink, turn down), разхлабвам (loosen, open, relax, unbend, unbrace, undo, unfasten, ungird, unknot, unlash, unloose, unstrap), ширина (amplitude, depth, expanse, extent, latitude, width), охолство (affluence, flesh-pots, prosperity), отслабям (abate, cripple, depauperate, loosen, reduce, relax, remit, shake, weaken, wear down), облекчавам (allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, comfort, disburden, disembarrass, facilitate, help, lighten, mitigate, palliate, redress, relieve, soothe, sweeten, unburden, unload), непринуденост (affability, disengagement, easiness, informality, laissez-aller, simplicity, spontaneity, unconstraint, unpretentiousness), лекота (easiness, facility, fluidity, gentleness, levity, lightness, readiness), покой (calm, peace, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietude, repose, rest, slumber). (various references) | |
Chinese | '适 (Comfort, Comfortable, comforts, Cosy, Coziness, Cozy, Easeful), 緩解 (help relieve), ' (leisurely), 減輕 (alleviate, lighten). (various references) | |
Czech | zmírnit (allay, alleviate, break, cushion, deaden, defuse, dilute, extenuate, loosen, mitigate, palliate, relieve, remit, slacken, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, temper, tone down, understate), utišit (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, hush, pacify, quiet down, quieten, relieve, rest, silence, sooth, stay, tranquillize), ulehèit (facilitate, lighten, relieve, unburden), snadnost (easiness, facility), pohodlí (amenities, comfort, convenience), nenucenost (informality, negligence, nonchalance, spontaneity), lehkost (facility, lightness, thinness), klid (calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, equanimity, imperturbability, peace, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, repose, rest, serenity, stand, standstill, still, stillness, tranquillity). (various references) | |
Danish | en plades egnethed til afvikling (ease of unrolling of coil), stedmoderblomst (heart's ease, pansy), overskrifterne er kun vejledende ; overskrifterne tjener alene til orientering (the titles are provided for ease of reference only), bropilles udformning nedstroems (downstream pier nosing, ease-water, fairing), at lette,paa grundlag af gensidighed,procedurerne i forbindelse med gennemfoerelsen af rejser (on a basis of reciprocity, procedures for arranging travel, to ease), at lette forskrifterne vedroerende rejser inden for deres territorium for borgere fra de andre deltagende stater (to ease regulations concerning movement of citizens from the other participating States in their territory). (various references) | |
Dutch | stroomafwaartse pijlerkop (downstream pier nosing, ease-water, fairing), op basis van wederkerigheid, de procedures versoepelen voor het regelen van reizen (on a basis of reciprocity, procedures for arranging travel, to ease), kredietrestriktie (to ease credit restrictions, to relax credit restrictions), kredietrestrictie (to ease credit restrictions, to relax credit restrictions), geschiktheid van plaat voor het afwikkelen van de rol (ease of unrolling of coil), gemakkelijk om te doen (ease of putting on), driekleurig viooltje (heart's ease, pansy, wild pansy, wild violet), de voorschriften met betrekking tot de beweging van burgers uit andere deelnemende Staten binnen hun grondgebied versoepelen (to ease regulations concerning movement of citizens from the other participating States in their territory), de opschriften gelden slechts als aanwijzing (the titles are provided for ease of reference only), benedenstroomse pijlerneus (downstream pier nosing, ease-water, fairing), benedenstroomse pijlerkop (downstream pier nosing, ease-water, fairing), akkerviooltje (field pansy, field violet, heart's ease, pansy). (various references) | |
Farsi | سهولت , سبک کردن (Alight, Alleviate, Attenuate, Lighten, Mitigate), اسودگی (Comfort, Convenience, Leisure, Relief, Repose), اسانی (Freedom), ازادکردن (Assert, Deliver, Extricate, Free, Liberate, Release, Uncage, Unfasten, Unfix, Unhitch, Unloose, Unstring, Unwrap, Unyoke), راحت کردن (Alight, Lighten, Relax). (various references) | |
Finnish | lievennys (abatement, alleviation, release, relief, remission), helpottaa (facilitate, make easier, relieve, soothe), helppous (easiness, facility), huojennus (abatement, reduction, release, relief, remission), huojentaa (lighten), keventää (lighten, relieve), hellittää (let go, loosen, relax, slacken, yield), laukaista (discharge, fire, launch, relax, relieve), sujuvuus (flow, fluency), lieventyä (be relieved, become less severe), lievimmin (soothe), lievittää (soothe), lievitys (mitigation, relief), luontevuus (naturalness), mukavuus (comfort, comfortableness, convenience), keveys (lightness). (various references) | |
French | tranquillité (easement), tranquilliser, tempérer, soulager, naturel (easy), faire calmer, faciliter, facilité (eased, easiness), calmer, atténuer, apaiser, aisance. (various references) | |
German | bequemlichkeit (accommodativeness, comfort, convenience, idleness, softness). (various references) | |
Greek | ησυχάζω (allay, becalm, calm, calm down, hush, lull, pacify, quiesce, quiet, settle down), ησυχία (calmness, noislessness, oyster, privacy, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, stillness), ευκολύνω (facilitate), ευκολία (commodity, convenience, easiness, facility), ελαφρύνω (attenuate, deplete, extenuate), ανάπαυση (cosiness, leisure, quietus, relaxation, reposal, repose, respite, rest, resting), ανακουφίζω (allay, alleviate, comfort, disburden, palliate, relieve, unburden). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ וח" (quiet, relaxing, repose, rest, resting place, tranquillity), מ וח (deceased, late, peace, quiet, rest, resting place, sanctuary), ל"קל (extenuate, facilitate, mitigate, moderate, palliate, relieve, remit, slight), ל"פי' (relieve), שלו" (calmness, peace, placidity, quietude, serenity, tranquillity), קלות (easiness, facility, lightness, simplicity, slightly), וחיות (comfort, convenience), חת (calm, contentment, gratification, mildness, peace, quiet, repose, rest, satisfaction, tranquillity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | könnyedség (airiness, facility, flippancy, fluency, gracefulness, jauntiness, readiness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mudah (easy), mengentengkan (alleviate, take for granted), kelapangan (emptiness, feel relieved, leisure, vacuity), kegampangan (easiness). (various references) | |
Italian | comodit (accommodation, amenities, amenity, comfort, convenience, cosiness, coziness, easiness), agilit (agility, fleetness, lightness, nimbleness), agio (cosiness, leisure), agio& sollievo& facilita\are nouns - alleviare & facilitare are verbs, alleggerire (lighten, relieve, unburden), alleviare (allay, alleviate, relieve), attenuare (alleviate, attenuate, dilute, dull, extenuate, mitigate, muffle, soften, subdue, tone down, understate), agiatezza (affluence, comfort, prosperity), calmare (abate, allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, compose, cool, hush, lull, pacify, quell, quiet, quieten, reassure, sober, soothe, still, to appease), tranquillit (calm, composure, dispassionateness, peace, quiet, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity), comodo (comfort, comfortable, comfy, convenience, convenient, cosiest, cosy, cozy, cushy, easiness, easy, handy, leisure, leisured, leisurely, snug), dare sollievo a, disinvoltura (ability, airiness, easiness, skill, skillfulness, sleight, slickness), liberare (clear, deliver, disengage, enfranchise, free, get rid, isolation, liberate, loose, release, rescue, rid, unbind, vacate), mollare (cast off, give, give in, let go, let go (moorings), pack in, release, running, slacken, stop, to give slack), sollievo (anodyne, comfort, easement, relief, solace), benessere (comfort, easiness, weal, welfare, well, well being, well-being, wellfare). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 楽 (comfort), "念 (relaxation), 安逸 (idleness, indolence), 安気 (comfort, feeling at home), 安楽 (carefree, comfort, cosy), 安佚 (idleness, indolence), 寛ぎ (room, space). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くつろぎ (room, space), ほうね" (bumper harvest, fruitful year, relaxation), あ"いつ (idleness, indolence), あ"らく (carefree, comfort, cosy), あ"き (comfort, fate, feeling at home, learning by heart, memorization, safety, welfare), らく (comfort). (various references) | |
Korean | 용이. (various references) | |
Manx | soccoilid (cosiness, easiness), soccar (association football, comfort, comfortableness, leisure), seyrey (absolution, absolve, acquit, acquittal, affranchise, affranchisement, clear, clear from guilt, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, disencumber; exploit; clearing, disengage, dismiss, dismissal, disoblige, dispensation; exploitation, emancipate, emancipation, enfranchise, exempt, exemption, exonerate, exoneration, free, justification, justify, liberate, liberation, purge, release, relieve, riddance, vindication, vindication act of), lhaggaghey (abate, abatement, bate, depress, dim, drop away, ease off, fade, fade out, flag, mitigate; flagging, mitigation, reduce, reduction, relax, relaxation, write down), jannoo aashagh (facilitate, simplification, simplify), eddrymaghey (alleviate, alleviation, lighten, unburden, unburdening), cur aash er (quieten), boggaghey (aspirate, dissolve, elide, elision, macerate, maceration, moisten, push off, relax, relaxation, soften, steep, tone down), aash (break, easement, rest). (various references) | |
Norwegian | velbehag (gusto), slakke, letthet (facility), lette (facilitate, lift, lighten). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | facilidade (easiness, facility, readiness). (various references) | |
Romanian | micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), alinare (alleviation, comfort, consolation, mitigation, palliation, relief, tempering), calma (allay, appease, becalm, calm, chasten, compose, kill, mollify, pacify, quiet, salve, settle, smooth, smooth down, sober, soften, soothe, steady, still, temper, tranquillize), comoditate (comfortableness, convenience, cosiness, handiness, sloth, snugness), da drumul la (exhaust, heave, let off, relinquish, slack, slip, spill, stream, volley), destinde (enlarge, expand, extend, loosen, relax), facilitate (facility), huzur (comfort), alina (abate, allay, alleviate, comfort, lighten, lull, mitigate, palliate, relieve, set in a row, solace, soothe, stop, temper), linişti (abate, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, cease, comfort, compose, hush, mitigate, mollify, pacify, quiet, quieten, reassure, recompose, rest, salve, serene, settle, smooth, smooth down, soothe, still), uşurinţã (carelessness, easiness, facility, flimsiness, frivolity, glibness, levity, light-mindedness, rashness, readiness, recklessness, wantonness), odihnã (calm, comfort, pause, peace, refreshment, relaxation, reposal, repose, rest, restfulness, sleep), pace (calm, composure, easiness, harmony, peace, peacefulness, serenity, silence), se domoli (abate, flatten, lull, quiet down, relent, slacken, soften, swoon), se micşora (contract, decline, diminish, dwindle, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, flag, grow less, grow smaller, lessen, shrink, shrink away), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), tihnã (comfort, easiness, leisure, quiet, rest), uşura (alleviate, appease, calm, disburden, facilitate, lighten, pacify, palliate, relax, relieve, respite, solace, soothe, speed), uşurare (alleviation, assuagement, grizzle, palliation, relaxation, release, relief, solace), linişte (calm, calmness, composure, easiness, hist, hush, lull, pax, peace, placidity, q.t., quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, serenity, silence, sobriety, soft, still, stillness, stop talking, temper, tranquillity). (various references) | |
Russian | выпускать (discharge, emit, issue, let go, let out, put out, release, relinquish, send forth, vent), облегчение (alleviation, alleviations, easement, facilitation, palliation, release, relief, relievo), облегчать (allay, alleviate, appease, facilitate, lighten, make ~ easy, mitigate, palliate, release, relieve, unburden), непринужденность (abandon), легкость (easiness, ethereality, facility, flimsiness, legerity, lightness, sheerness), праздность (idleness, indolence, otioseness, otiosity), покой (peace, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, sabbath), досуг (leisure). (various references) | |
Scottish | socair (at your ease, comfort : air do shocair, gentle, mild, quiet, rest, steady, take). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | udobnost (comfort, convenience, cosiness), ublažiti (alleviate, attemper, become tempered, buff, cushion, dull, lessen, mince, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palliate, redeem, soft pedal, soften, soothe, temper, tone down), spokojstvo (heartsease, moorings, tranquillity). (various references) | |
Spanish | facilidad (bent, easiness, facility, freedom, lightness). (various references) | |
Swedish | lätthet (easiness, facility, fragility, lightness, mildness, simplicity), lätta (alleviate, alleviated, clear, clear away, disencumber, ease off, ease up, facilitate, get, lift, lighten, lighter, unburden). (various references) | |
Thai | บรรเทา (lessen, meliorate, mitigate, slake, still), ทำให้สบาย, ความสะ"วก, ความง่าย"ายในการทำสิ่งต่างๆ. (various references) | |
Turkish | kolaylaştırmak (be helpful, catalyze, expedite, facilitate, further, make a dent in, make easy, pave the way, pave the way for, remit, short circuit, simplify, smooth, smooth the way, streamline), dindirmek (abate, alleviate, assuage, attemper, kill, quench, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, soothe, stop, suppress), dinme (alleviation, failure, let up, quiet), gevşetmek (enervate, let go, limber up, loosen, loosen up, relax, release, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, start, unbend, unbrace, unfasten, ungird, unloose, unstring), hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, commute, deaden, de-escalate, emasculate, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, palliate, qualify, relieve, remit, soft pedal, subdue, water, weaken), huzur (audience, comfort, composure, evenness, languor, peace, presence, quiet, quietness, quietude, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity), dikkatle yerleştirmek, kolaylık (airiness, convenience, easiness, facility, simplicity, straightforwardness), yatıştırmak (abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, comfort, compose, conciliate, defuse, disarm, hush, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, remit, salve, sedate, settle, smooth down, smother up, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), konfor (comfort, cosiness), rahat (at ease, at rest, cavalier, comfort, comfortable, comfy, complacent, composure, cosy, cushioned, cushy, easy, facile, leisure, luxurious, peace, rest, restful, serene, snug, unconstrained, unconventional, undisturbed, unembarassed, untroubled), rahatlık (boon, comfort, cosiness, easiness, facility, leisureliness), rahatlamak (feel relieved, let go, let one's hair down, let oneself go, open out, relax, unbend), rahatlatmak (comfort, de-stress, disburden, disembarrass, facilitate, lighten, relax, relieve, relieve one's mind, salve, straighten smb. out, thaw, thaw out, unbend, unbrace, unburden), refah (bonanza, comfort, opulence, prosperity, prosperous, weal, welfare), içi rahat olma. (various references) | |
Turkmen | яeсillik (privilege). (various references) | |
Ukranian | спокій (balance, calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, easiness, impassivity, order, peace, placidity, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, requiescence, rest, serene, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity), вільність (fluency, liberty), невимушеність (abandon, abandonment, informality, negligence, repose), звільняти (absolve, acquit, affranchise, avoid, bag, cashier, clear, defecate, disband, disencumber, disengage, dismiss, eject, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, exonerate, free, let out, loose, manumit, purify, release, remit, rescue, rid, set free, supersede, unfetter, unshackle, untie, vacate), зменшуватися (abate, decline, decrease, dispeople, drop across, drop off, ease off, fall off, turn down), заспокоювати (appease, assuage, assure, becalm, calm, comfort, conciliate, cool down, lull, mollify, plaster, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, satisfy, smooth, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), послаблювати (allay, damp, reduce), полегшувати (alleviate, appease, exonerate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, relieve, sugar coat, unload), полегшення (alleviation, amendment, appeasement, easement, extenuation, relief), дозвілля (avocations, leisure). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thoải mái (airiness, easiness), sự thanh thản (easiness, equanimity, quiet, quietness, rest, serenity), sự nh n hạ sự dễ d ng, sự khỏi đau, sự không bị r ng buộc sự thanh nh n, sự không bị đau đớn, dự thanh thoát sự dễ chịu. (various references) | |
Welsh | esmwythyd (luxury), esmwytho (alleviate, soften, soothe), esmwythder, esmwytha+d (relief), rhwyddineb (facility), lliniaru (allay, assuage, soothe), hwylustod (convenience, facility), hawddfyd (prosperity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lenieris, lenietur, lenior, lenirent, lenis, otio, otium, relaxo. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | haurvata, hvâthrem. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | aise. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 12, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai erw th yuch mou yuch eceiV polla agaqa keimena eiV eth polla anapauou fage pie eufrainou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et dicam animae meae anima habes multa bona posita in annos plurimos requiesce comede bibe epulare |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And ic secge minre sawle eala sawel þu hæfst mycele god: asette to manegum gearum. gerest þe: et. and drinc and gewista; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Y schal seie to my soule, Soule, thou hast many goodis kept in to ful many yeeris; rest thou, ete, drynke, and make feeste. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoore for many yeares take thyne ease: eate drinke and be mery. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast abundance of goods laid up for many years; take thy ease, eat, drink, and be merr |