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Chronicle vs Transfix - What's the difference?

chronicle | transfix |

As nouns the difference between chronicle and transfix

is that chronicle is a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time while transfix is (linguistics) a discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of semitic languages.

As verbs the difference between chronicle and transfix

is that chronicle is to record in or as in a chronicle while transfix is (transitive)  to render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.

chronicle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
  • *
  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

    • Usage notes

    * Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle .

    Synonyms

    * (account of events and when they happened) annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version

    Verb

  • To record in or as in a chronicle.

    • Synonyms

    * (record in a chronicle) record

    transfix

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (linguistics) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Semitic languages.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • (transitive)  To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.}}
  • (transitive)  To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:There was a little stream that ran not far away, in which he bathed, and down this on occasion would come a shoal of fish. Then the natives would assemble with spears, and with much shouting would transfix the great startled things as they hurried down to the sea.
  • (transitive)  To fix or impale.

    • Related terms

    * transfixation * transfixion * transfixture