2022-01-09
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – C – careen & career
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง careen = “kuh-REEN”
ออกเสียง career = “kuh-REER”
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words:
Careen = lean or tip to one side while in motion,
as car rounding a curve or a ship listing in a storm:
The motorcycle careened around the bend in the road.
Not to be confused with:
career = move rapidly, go at full speed:
The sports car careered down the highway.;
= vocation, lifework, livelihood:
She has made a career of interior decoration.
Dictionary.com:
Careen and Career
Verb
Some people might be confused by the warning
to not confuse careen and career,
because the most common sense of career ("a profession")
is not much like any of the meanings of careen.
But when employed as a verb,
career does have some semantic overlap with careen;
both words may be used to mean
"to go at top speed especially in a headlong manner."
A car, for instance, may either careen or career.
Some usage guides hold, however, that
the car is only careening ifthere is side-to-side motion,
as careen has other meanings related to movement,
among which is "to sway from side to side."
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Usage Notes
'Careen' vs. 'Career'
Don't rush to judge them differently
The similar-soundingverbs careen and career
are often used interchangeably,
meaning "to move at top speed,"
often in a reckless or out-of-control manner.
The word 'career' comes from medieval jousting tournaments,
where it referred not only to the courses ridden by knights
but also to the act of riding a horse at a rapid clip in short bursts.
In fact, one intransitive sense of careen
is defined as a synonym of career,
which is itself defined as
"to go at top speed especially in a headlong manner."
Despite their one-letter-off resemblance,
careen and career are not etymologically related.
Career finds its origins in medieval jousting tournaments.
Before it came to be the preferred term for one's professional path,
the noun career (from Middle French carriere)
referred not only to the courses ridden by knights
but also the act of riding a horse at a rapid clip in short bursts.
The verb careen, meanwhile,
originally described the action of putting a ship or boat on land,
usually in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull.
So how did this verb get conflated with career?
To careen a boat, you need to tilt it on its side.
Careen gradually became used to describe the act of a boat tipping over
in rough waters, or the similar tilting of other things:
Traditional usage commentators
frown upon this overlap,
insisting that careen shouldn't be used for something
that is only moving at a headlong pace
without any kind of side-to-side motion.
But popular use tends to drown out those objections.
Nowadays, careen is actually the preferred verb
for rushing forward, particularly in American English.
Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary:
CAREEN / CAREER
A truck careening down the road
is swervingfrom side to side as it races along,
whereas a truck careering down the road
may be simply traveling very fast.
But because it is not often clear
which meaning a person intends,
confusing these two words is not likely to get you into trouble.
