Ens vs Ers - What's the difference?
ens | ers |
(philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
* 1860 , John Henry Macmahon, A treatise on metaphysics: chiefly in reference to revealed religion , page 195:
Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
*2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 245:
*:Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses' or '''''entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […].
(er)
(informal) To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found almost exclusively in the phrase um and er .
As a noun ens
is an entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.As a verb ers is
third-person singular of er.As an acronym ERS is
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English
Etymology 1
From . See entity.Noun
(en-noun)- the Nature of the Supreme Ens
Etymology 2
Inflected forms.Noun
(head)Anagrams
* ----ers
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * ----er
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Verb
- He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.