Onset vs Belong - What's the difference?

onset | belong |

As a noun onset

is a rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.

As a verb onset

is (obsolete) to assault; to set upon.

As an adjective belong is

oblong.

onset

English

Noun

(en noun)

A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare),

The onset and retire / Of both your armies.

* (rfdate) (William Wordsworth),

Who on that day the word of onset gave.

(medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.

(phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.

(acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.

(obsolete) A setting about; a beginning.

* (rfdate) (Francis Bacon),

There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

(obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}

(Shakespeare)

(Johnson)

Verb

(obsolete) To assault; to set upon.

(obsolete) To set about; to begin.

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs

belong

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) belongen, from .

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To have its proper place.

# (label) To be accepted in a group.

# To be a part of a group.

To be part of, or the property of.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}

To be the spouse or partner of. (rfex)

(followed by'' to''') To be an element of (a set). The symbol $\in$ means '''''belongs to .

To be deserved by.

* (rfdate) (Ben Jonson)

More evils belong us than happen to us.

Derived terms

* belonging * belongingness

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Etymology 2

Compare Kriol blanga'', Bislama ''blong'', Tok Pisin ''bilong'', and Torres Strait Creole ''blong .

Alternative forms

* blung * , belonga, blonga

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Of, belonging to.

* 1915, E. R. Masson, Untamed Territory

Jim Campbell, Charlie, Dick, ... Fred, lubra b’longa him, me, thass all.

* 1936, M. & E. Durack, Chunuma

By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.

* 1977, N. Kolig, Playing Alonga Mud

Those who had persevered with the course and had acquired some skill were now almost deferentially called ‘Maban (expert) belonga clay’.

* 1986, Kowanyama News, Dec.

Them two bin help’m too, and that father blung to this one old Frank.

* 1986, B. Shaw, Countrymen

There’s the bloke that’s kill that feller, uncle belong you an me.

* 1991, D. B. Rose, Hidden Histories

Get that fire [wood] stacked up like that tree there, that high ... It wasn’t wood belong to that fire pile. Might be for station, or somebody else, you know.