2022-10-19 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด H -– Hurdle & hurtle

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2022-10-19

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Ref.:https://www.gotoknow.org/posts/683863

 

Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Hurdle =’HUR-dl’

ออกเสียง Hurtle = ‘HUR-tl’

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Hurdle & hurtle

Hurdle means 

“to leap over,” 

“to overcome”: 

“I can easily hurdle that small stream.”

“He is determined to hurdle every obstacle in his path.”

 

Hurtle means “to move with great speed,: 

“to rush,” 

“to go violently”: 

“The motorcycle hurtled down the road,” 

“An avalanche will soon hurtle down the mountainside.”

 

Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree

Hurdle a barrier; problem; obstacle: 

He jumped over the last hurdle.

Not to be confused with:

hurtle = speed; race; rush; shoot: 

I watched the horses hurtle down the track.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Hurdle vs. Hurtle

Indistinguishable in speech,

the words hurtle and hurdle can be a confusing pair.

Hurtle is a verb with two meanings: 

“to move rapidly or forcefully,” 

as in

 “The stone was hurtling through the air,” and 

“to hurl or fling,” 

as in 

“I hurtled the stone into the air.” 

Note that 

the first use is intransitive: 

the stone isn’t hurtling any-thing 

it itself is simply hurtling. 

 

The second use is transitive: 

something was hurtled

—in this case, 

a stone.

Hurdle is both a noun and a verb.

 As a noun, its most common meanings 

have to do with barriers:

 the ones that runners leap over, 

and the metaphorical extension of these, 

the figurative barriers and obstacles we try to similarly overcome. 

 

The verb hurdle has two meanings, 

and they are directly related to these. 

It can mean “to leap over especially while running,” 

as in “She hurdled the fence,” 

and it can mean “to overcome or surmount,” 

as in “They’ve had to hurdle significant financial obstacles.” 

 

The verb hurdle is always transitive; 

that is, there’s always a thing being hurdled, 

whether it be a physical obstacle or

 a metaphorical one.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Usage Notes

Is It ‘Hurtle’ or ‘Hurdle’?

You can do both, but they’re not the same

Indistinguishable in speech, 

the words hurtle and hurdle can be a confusing pair.

 

Here’s the scoop on both.

You jump over a ‘hurdle.’ 

The planet ‘hurtles’ through the cosmos.

 

Hurdle has several different meanings as a noun. 

The word originally

—that is, way back before the 12th century

—referred to one of a set of portable panels 

that you’d put around land or livestock.

 

 It’s this hurdle that 

in the 19th century gave us the kind of hurdle 

we’re familiar with runners jumping over in track events. 

(In the intervening years, 

a more sinister meaning of the word was also in use: 

from the early 15th century until 

well past the midpoint of the 19th, 

traitors in England were dragged 

to their execution on a frame 

or sled referred to as a hurdle. Yikes.)

 

Hurdle isn’t just a noun, though. 

It’s a verb with two meanings, 

one of which relates directly to the hurdles of track and field: 

 

“to leap over especially while running,” 

as in “hurdling a fence.” 

 

From that late 19th century meaning 

came an extended figurative use of “overcome” or “surmount,” 

as in “hurdling adversity.” 

The verb hurdle is always transitive; 

that is, there’s always a thing being hurdled, 

whether it be a physical obstacle 

or a metaphorical one.

 

Then, in a brilliant display of racing strategy and guts, 

[Emma] Coburn took the inside lane over the penultimate barrier 

and came out of the turn in the lead. 

She then sprinted down the home stretch, 

lightly hurdled the final barrier 

and powered home with arms upraised 

to earn the World Championship gold medal.

 

— Mike Sandrock, 

The Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado), 10 Dec. 2017In 1994, 

[Ernest Finney Jr.] hurdled another racial barrier 

when the General Assembly elected him chief justice.

— Sam Roberts, 

 

The New York Times, 9 Dec. 2017

The word hurtle, on the other hand, 

can be either a noun (“an act of hurtling”) 

as well as a transitive or intransitive verb. 

 

The verb has two meanings: 

“to move rapidly or forcefully,” 

as in “a stone hurtling through the air,” 

and “to hurl or fling,” 

as in “hurtling the stone into the air.

 

”On Christmas Day, astronomers 

at the Mount Lemmon Survey near Tucson, Arizona, 

discovered an asteroid fast approaching Earth

…. The previously unknown rock hurtled through space 

at almost 21,500 miles per hour.

— Katherine Hignett, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2017

 

SpaceShipTwo holds six passengers, 

who have each paid $250,000 per ticket. 

The ship is carried by airplane to high altitudes 

before its rocket fires, 

hurtling the craft into space 

and allowing the passengers 

to float around weightless 

before descending to land on a runway.

— Alex Knapp, Forbes, 18 June 2014

 

To remember which word you want, 

remember this: 

if you’re going to hurdle,

you need to be literally or figuratively leaping over something.