English Explanatory Dictionary

CAIR

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Acronym of Clean Air Interstate Rule.
  2. Acronym of Council on American-Islamic Relations.
noun
  1. Acronym of confidential aviation incident reporting.
verb
  1. To go.
  2. To carry.
  3. To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.
noun
  1. Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”).

Word forms

CAIR cairs cairing caired

Etymology

From Middle English cairen, kayren, from Old Norse keyra (“to whip, lash, fling, toss, prick on, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *kaurijaną (“to turn, sweep”). Cognate with Icelandic keyra (“to run, drive, urge”), Swedish köra (“to drive, go, run”), Danish køre (“to drive”), Norwegian Bokmål kjøre (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk køyra (“to drive”), Old English ċierran (“to turn, change, go, come”). More at char.

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