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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARRY

From French parer to ward off, from Latin parāre to prepare.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PARRY

parry  [ˈpærɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Parry is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb parry in English.

WHAT DOES PARRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of parry in the English dictionary

The first definition of parry in the dictionary is to ward off by blocking or deflecting, as in fencing. Other definition of parry is to evade, esp adroitly. Parry is also an act of parrying, esp using a stroke or circular motion of the blade.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PARRY

PRESENT

Present
I parry
you parry
he/she/it parries
we parry
you parry
they parry
Present continuous
I am parrying
you are parrying
he/she/it is parrying
we are parrying
you are parrying
they are parrying
Present perfect
I have parried
you have parried
he/she/it has parried
we have parried
you have parried
they have parried
Present perfect continuous
I have been parrying
you have been parrying
he/she/it has been parrying
we have been parrying
you have been parrying
they have been parrying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I parried
you parried
he/she/it parried
we parried
you parried
they parried
Past continuous
I was parrying
you were parrying
he/she/it was parrying
we were parrying
you were parrying
they were parrying
Past perfect
I had parried
you had parried
he/she/it had parried
we had parried
you had parried
they had parried
Past perfect continuous
I had been parrying
you had been parrying
he/she/it had been parrying
we had been parrying
you had been parrying
they had been parrying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will parry
you will parry
he/she/it will parry
we will parry
you will parry
they will parry
Future continuous
I will be parrying
you will be parrying
he/she/it will be parrying
we will be parrying
you will be parrying
they will be parrying
Future perfect
I will have parried
you will have parried
he/she/it will have parried
we will have parried
you will have parried
they will have parried
Future perfect continuous
I will have been parrying
you will have been parrying
he/she/it will have been parrying
we will have been parrying
you will have been parrying
they will have been parrying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would parry
you would parry
he/she/it would parry
we would parry
you would parry
they would parry
Conditional continuous
I would be parrying
you would be parrying
he/she/it would be parrying
we would be parrying
you would be parrying
they would be parrying
Conditional perfect
I would have parry
you would have parry
he/she/it would have parry
we would have parry
you would have parry
they would have parry
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been parrying
you would have been parrying
he/she/it would have been parrying
we would have been parrying
you would have been parrying
they would have been parrying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you parry
we let´s parry
you parry
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to parry
Past participle
parried
Present Participle
parrying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARRY


ariary
ˈærɪˌærɪ
barrie
ˈbærɪ
barry
ˈbærɪ
barye
ˈbærɪ
Carrey
ˈkærɪ
carry
ˈkærɪ
Gary
ˈɡærɪ
glengarry
ɡlɛnˈɡærɪ
harry
ˈhærɪ
intermarry
ˌɪntəˈmærɪ
kumari
kʊˈmærɪ
laree
ˈlærɪ
Larry
ˈlærɪ
marrer
ˈmærɪ
marri
ˈmærɪ
marry
ˈmærɪ
miscarry
mɪsˈkærɪ
remarry
riːˈmærɪ
tarry
ˈtærɪ
uakari
wæˈkærɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARRY

parricide
parried
parrier
parries
parritch
parrock
parroket
parroquet
parrot
parrot cry
parrot disease
parrot fever
parrot phrase
parrot toadstool
parrot-fashion
parroter
parrotfish
parrotry
parroty
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WORDS THAT END LIKE PARRY

cash-and-carry
charry
du Barry
fetch and carry
flash Harry
gharry
happy as Larry
Jarry
marble quarry
mismarry
Old Harry
overcarry
quarry
sandstone quarry
scarry
slate quarry
sparry
starry
Tom, Dick, and Harry
Tom, Dick, or Harry

Synonyms and antonyms of parry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PARRY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «parry» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of parry

Translation of «parry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARRY

Find out the translation of parry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of parry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

招架
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

parry
570 millions of speakers

English

parry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पैरी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

باري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

парирования
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Parry
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঠেকান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

parade
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Parry
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

parieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

受け流し
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무기 막기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngguyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trả miếng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவிர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॅरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

savuşturma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parry
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

parry
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

парирування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Parry
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απόκρουση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Parry
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

parera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

parry
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of parry

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARRY»

The term «parry» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.439 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARRY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «parry» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «parry» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about parry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARRY»

Discover the use of parry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to parry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman ...
The Making of Homeric Verse for the first time collects these landmark works in one volume together with Parry's unpublished M.A. thesis and extracts from his Yugoslavian journal, which contains notes on Serbo-Croatian poetry and its ...
Milman Parry, Adam Parry, 1987
2
Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-composers
The works of twenty composers from the golden age of English romantic song, major figures - Parry, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Ireland, Gurney, Warlock and Finzi - studied alongside the lesser-known.
Trevor Hold, 2005
3
Relief Systems Handbook
This practical guide fills a gap in the literature on pressure relief design, operation and maintenance, covering the applicability to and reliability of different pressure relief devices in individual situations.
Cyril F. Parry, 1992
4
Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity
Legal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violence
John T. Parry, 2010
5
The Spanish Seaborne Empire
The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred.
John Horace Parry, 1990
6
Political Elites
For this ECPR Classics edition Professor Parry has added an introduction reviewing significant new developments in elite political science.
Geraint Parry, 2005
7
Aristotelian Logic
Proceedings of an international research and development conference, Tuscon, Arizona, October 1985. One hundred and twenty-eight papers are presented in this hefty volume.
William Thomas Parry, Edward A. Hacker, 1991
8
The Age of Reconnaissance
This book is less concerned with the voyages of discovery themselves than with an analysis of the factors that made the voyages possible in the first place.
J H Parry, 2010
9
Money and the Morality of Exchange
This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in a range of different societies, and more specifically with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges.
Jonathan Parry, Maurice Bloch, 1989
10
Death in Banaras
A study of Hindu death rituals and the sacred specialists who perform them in the Indian city of Banaras.
Jonathan P. Parry, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term parry is used in the context of the following news items.
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GP3: Eriksson penalty promotes Parry to podium
Eriksson's team mate Matt Parry is the main gainer from the stewards' decision as he moves up from fourth place to the vacant podium spot. «crash.net, Jul 15»
2
Highway 69 crash north of Parry Sound kills two, sends four to hospital
Two people have died in a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 69 north of Parry Sound. The crash happened on Saturday at around 2 p.m. on the ... «CTV News, Jul 15»
3
Diet pills website 'should have been shut down' a year before …
Eloise Parry died in April after taking eight diet pills. ... The website believed to have been used by Parry, which cannot be named for legal ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Gareth Parry: Keeping it real
Gareth Parry is a PwC digital director specialising in human-centred research and design. How do know your concept is the best concept, ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
5
Natasha Parry, Lady Capulet in Franco Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet …
Natasha Parry, the London-born actress who played Lady Capulet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, an Oscar nominee ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»
6
Bryn Parry makes it a touchdown at Chilliwack Golf Club
He lives in North Vancouver, but Bryn Parry apparently feels right at home in Chilliwack. More specifically, at Chilliwack Golf Club where Parry ... «Vancouver Sun, Jul 15»
7
Malcolm Parry: VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation fundraiser …
... chairman Thomas Fung and wife Amy also played host to garden party for 80 guests. By Malcolm Parry, Vancouver Sun columnist July 24, 2015 12:26 PM ... «Vancouver Sun, Jul 15»
8
Load restriction placed on Parry Bridge
The municipality has posted a nine-tonne load restriction notice on Parry Bridge on Keil Drive. The infrastructure and engineering department is ... «Chatham Daily News, Jul 15»
9
Pearl Mist returns to Parry Sound
The Pearl Mist returned to Parry Sound Wednesday and will be back August 2, August 12, August 23, August 25-26, and September 6. «www.parrysound.com, Jul 15»
10
Jessica Hershberg, William Parry and Cooper Grodin to Star in Palm …
PBD's production stars Jessica Hershberg, last season's Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella, as Lizzie; William Parry, who had the title role in ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»

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