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Dictionary Results For "caution" [?]/[OPML]
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English

Pronunciation

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Noun

  1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
  2. Security; guaranty; bail.
  3. precept|Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.


Translations

  • Finnish: , , ,
  • German: {{t+|de|Vorsicht|f}}, {{t+|de|Achtung|f}}, {{t+|de|Behutsamkeit|f}}
  • Hungarian:
  • German: {{t+|de|Kaution|f}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Finnish: , ,
  • German: {{t-|de|Warnung|f}}, {{t+|de|Vorsicht|f}}
  • Hungarian: ,

Verb

  1. To warn; to advise that caution is warranted.


Translations

  • Finnish: , ,
  • German: ,
  • Hungarian: ,

Anagrams


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English

Noun 1 caution, cautiousness

  1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.


Synonyms


Adjective 1 cautious

  1. careful; using or exercising caution; tentative

Synonyms


Adverb cautiously

  1. in a cautious manner


Synonyms


Wikisaurus / Thesaurus Links


  • Macquarie Concise Thesaurus 1985
  • :CAUTIOUS, CAUTIOUSLY, CAUTIOUSNESS


See Also

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Caution \Cau"tion\, n. [F. caution a security, L. cautio, fr.
cavere (For scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care
(orig.) to be on the watch, see; akin to E. show.]
1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in
order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in
regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
[1913 Webster]

2. Security; guaranty; bail. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient
caution that the war should be prosecuted.
--Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]

3. Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation
to wariness; advice; injunction.
[1913 Webster]

In way of caution I must tell you. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

4. (Civil & Scots Law) A pledge, bond, or other security for
the performance of an obligation either in or out of
judicial proceedings; the promise or contract of one not
for himself but another; security.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Caution money, money deposited by way of security or
guaranty, as by a student at an English university.

Syn: Care; forethought; forecast; heed; prudence;
watchfulness; vigilance; circumspection; anxiety;
providence; counsel; advice; warning; admonition.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Caution \Cau"tion\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cautioned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Cautioning.]
To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take
heed.
[1913 Webster]

You cautioned me against their charms. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet caution
n 1: the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible
danger; "a man of caution" [syn: cautiousness, carefulness]
[ant: incaution]
2: a warning against certain acts; "a caveat against unfair
practices" [syn: caveat]
3: judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised
caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with
care" [syn: precaution, care, forethought]
4: the trait of being circumspect and prudent [syn: circumspection]
v : warn strongly; put on guard [syn: admonish, monish]
Moby Dictionary
TLC
, admonish , admonishment , admonition , advice , advise , advising ,
advocacy
, alarm , alert , alerting , alertness , anticipation ,
attention
, briefing , canniness , care , carefulness , caution money ,
cautioning
, cautiousness , caveat , charge , circumspection ,
circumspectness
, clue , collateral , collateral security , concern ,
consideration
, consultation , council , counsel , cry havoc ,
cry out against
, cue , daunt , deposit , determent , deterrence ,
deterrent example
, diffidence , direction , discreetness , discretion ,
disinclination to believe
, dissuade , encourage , enjoin , example ,
exhort
, exhortation , expostulate , expostulation , falter , faltering ,
final notice
, final warning , foresight , forethought , forewarn ,
forewarning
, forfeit , frighten off , frightening off ,
give fair warning
, give notice , give warning , guardedness ,
guidance
, heed , heedfulness , hesitance , hesitancy , hesitating ,
hesitation
, hint , hortation , idea , incite , inconvincibility ,
incredulity
, induce , injunction , instruction , intimidate ,
intimidation
, issue a caveat , issue an ultimatum , kid out of ,
leeriness
, lesson , loving care , margin , mindfulness , monition ,
moral
, move , notice , notification , notify , object lesson , office ,
opinion
, parley , passing word , persuade , pointer , preach ,
precaution
, preconsideration , predeliberation , premeditation ,
preparedness
, prompt , proposal , providence , prudence ,
recommendation
, regard , regardfulness , remonstrance , remonstrate ,
resistiveness to belief
, shilly-shally , shilly-shallying ,
skepticism
, solicitude , sound the alarm , stake , steer , suggestion ,
suspicion
, suspiciousness , talk out of , talking out of ,
tender loving care
, tentativeness , thought , thoughtfulness , threat ,
threaten
, tip , tip off , tip-off , tough-mindedness , ultimatum ,
unconvincibility
, uncredulousness , unpersuadability , unpersuade ,
unpersuasibility
, urge , utter a caveat , verbum sapienti , vigilance ,
wariness
, warn , warn against , warning , warning piece , watchfulness ,
whisper


CAUTION. A term of the Roman civil law, which is used in various senses. It signifies, sometimes, security, or security promised. Generally every writing is called cautio, a caution by which any object is provided for. Vicat, ad verb. In the common law a distinction is made between a contract and the security. The contract may be good and the security void. The contract may be divisible, and the security entire and indivisible. 2 Burr, 1082. The securities or cautions judicially required of the defendant, are, judicio sisti, to attend and appear during the pendency of the suit; de rato, to confirm the acts of his attorney or proctor; judicium solvi, to pay the sum adjudged against him. Coop. Just. 647; Hall's Admiralty Practice, 12; 2 Brown, Civ. Law, 356.
CAUTION, TURATORY, Scotch law. Juratory caution is that which a suspender swears is the best he can offer in order to obtain a suspension. Where the suspender cannot, from his low or suspected circumstances, procure unquestionable security, juratory caution is admitted. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4, 3, 6.
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