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Cartel vs Maria - What's the difference?

cartel | maria |

As a noun cartel

is cartel.

As a proper noun maria is

.

cartel

English

(wikipedia cartel)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
  • A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
  • A written letter of defiance or challenge.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel .
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, p.22:
  • Xerxes'' whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill ''Athos .
  • An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
  • (Wilhelm)
  • (nautical) A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    maria

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) Maria, from (etyl) . A Latinate variant of the vernacular English (l).

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
  • Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the word Maria ; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.
  • * 1776 , Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
  • By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria .
  • * 1957 , Arthur Laurents/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein: ''West Side Story: Maria ( a song):
  • I've just kissed a girl named Maria', / And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be! / ' Maria ! Say it loud and there's music playing - / Say it soft and it's almost like praying

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (Maria language) (en proper noun)
  • A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
  • Derived terms
    * Abujmaria

    Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.