panic
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)panics
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxietySynonyms: terroraffrightType of fear, fearfulnessKinds swivet
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events“panic in the stock market”“a war scare”“a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building”Synonyms: scareType of anxiety, anxiousnessKinds red scare
Verb (2)panicked, panicking, panics
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Translations
Noun overwhelming fear or fright
- Spanish
- pánico
- French
- panique
- German
- Panik
- Italian
- panico
- Portuguese
- pânico
- Turkish
- panik
- Russian
- па́ника pánika
- Arabic
- فَزَع fazaʕ
- Chinese
- 恐慌 kǒnghuāng
- Japanese
- パニック panikku
22 more languages
- Dutch
- paniek
- Polish
- panika
- Korean
- 공황 gonghwang
- Indonesian
- kepanikan
- Hungarian
- pánik
- Portuguese (PT)
- pânico
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 恐慌 kǒnghuāng
- Catalan
- pànic
- Czech
- panika
- Danish
- panik
- Esperanto
- paniko
- Estonian
- paanika
- Finnish
- paniikki
- Georgian
- პანიკა ṗaniḳa
- Hebrew
- בֶּהָלָה behalá
- Icelandic
- læti
- Latvian
- panika
- Lithuanian
- panika
- Norwegian
- panikk
- Romanian
- panică
- Scottish Gaelic
- maoim
- Serbo-Croatian
- panika
Verb to feel panic
- French
- paniquer
- Italian
- farsi prendere dal panico
- Turkish
- paniklemek
- Russian
- паникова́ть panikovátʹ
- Chinese
- 恐慌 kǒnghuāng
- Polish
- panikować
- Greek
- πανικοβάλλομαι panikovállomai
- Vietnamese
- hoảng loạn
- Hungarian
- pánikol
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 恐慌 kǒnghuāng
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. panicum.
Botany A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
Panic grass Botany, any grass of the genus Panicum.
Origin: Gr. πανικός of or pertaining to Πάν Pan, to whom the causing of sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F. panique.
Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; — said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. “A panic fright.” John Dryden
Origin: Gr. τὸ πανικόν (with or without δεῖμα fear): cf. F. panique. See Panic, adjective
1. A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
2. By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<operating system> What Unix does when a critical internal consistency checks fails in such a way that Unix cannot continue. The kernel attempts to print a short message on the console and write an image of memory into the swap area on disk. This can be analysed later using adb. The kernel will then either wait in a tight loop until the machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic reboot.
Unix manual page: panic(8).
2.Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem which prevents it from continuing to run.
(1995-03-01)