uniform

See also: Uniform and üniform

Translingual

Noun

uniform

1. Alternative letter-case form of Uniform of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.

Japanese schoolgirls wearing school uniforms.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: yo͞oʹnĭ-fôrm, IPA^(key): /ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/, /ˈjunɪfɚm/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnɪfɔːm/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: uni‧form

Adjective

uniform (comparative more uniform, superlative most uniform)

1. Unvarying; all the same.
   • 1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106:

     "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.

2. Consistent; conforming to one standard.
   • 1593, Richard Hooker, “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”, in The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker, published 1830, page 313:

     The only doubt is, about the manner of their unity; how far Churches are bound to be uniform in their Ceremonies, and what way they ought to take for that purpose.

3. (mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
4. (chemistry, of a polymer) Composed of a single macromolecular species.
5. (geometry) (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.

Usage notes

• As a description of polymers, the IUPAC prefers the term uniform to monodisperse.

Synonyms

• (unvarying): regular, stable; see also Thesaurus:steady
• (all the same): invariable, of a piece; see also Thesaurus:homogeneous

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “all the same”): diverse
• nonuniform

Derived terms

• non-uniform
• quasiuniform
• semiuniform
• uniform act
• uniform antshrike
• uniform case
• uniform crake
• uniform distribution
• uniformity
• uniformly
• uniform metric
• uniform resource identifier
• uniform space

 

Translations

unvarying

• Bulgarian: еднороден (bg) m (ednoroden), еднообразен (bg) (ednoobrazen)
• Catalan: uniforme (ca)
• Czech: uniformní, jednotvárný (cs)
• Danish: ensformet, uniform (da), uforanderlig (da) (in time)
• Dutch: uniform (nl), gelijk (nl), onveranderlijk (nl)
• Esperanto: unuforma
• Estonian: ühetaoline
• Finnish: yhdenmukainen (fi)
• French: uniforme (fr)
• Galician: uniforme (gl)
• German: gleichförmig (de), gleichmäßig (de)
• Greek: ομοιόμορφος (el) (omoiómorfos)
• Hungarian: egyforma (hu), egyenletes (hu)
• Indonesian: seragam (id)
• Irish: aonfhoirmeach, comhionann
• Italian: uniforme (it)
• Japanese: 統一された (tōitsu sareta), 画一な (kakuitsu na), 一定の (ittei no)
• Korean: 같다 (ko) (gatda)
• Latin: uniformis
• Malay: seragam, uniform
• Maltese: uniformi f
• Manx: colaik
• Maori: kanorite
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: enhetlig

• Ottoman Turkish: سوی (seviy)
• Polish: jednorodny (pl) m
• Portuguese: uniforme (pt)
• Russian: однообра́зный (ru) (odnoobráznyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀нифо̄рман, једноо̀бразан, једно̀личан

  Roman: ùnifōrman (sh), jednoòbrazan (sh), jednòličan (sh)

• Spanish: uniforme (es)
• Swedish: likformig (sv), ^{(please verify)} oföränderlig (sv) (in time), enhetlig (sv), uniform (sv)
• Tagalog: sanyusin
• Turkish: monoton (tr), tekdüze (tr)

consistent

• Danish: konsistent, konsekvent, bestående
• Dutch: uniform (nl), consistent (nl)
• Finnish: yhtenäinen (fi), yhdenmukainen (fi)
• French: uniforme (fr)
• German: einheitlich (de)
• Hungarian: egyforma (hu), egységes (hu), egyöntetű (hu)
• Irish: aonfhoirmeach, comhionann
• Italian: uniforme (it)
• Japanese: 普遍な (fuhen na), 統一された (tōitsu sareta)
• Korean: 일정(一定) (ko) (iljeong)
• Manx: colaik
• Polish: jednorodny (pl) m, spójny (pl) m
• Portuguese: uniforme (pt)
• Russian: единообра́зный (ru) (jedinoobráznyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: конзистѐнтан, по́стоја̄н

  Roman: konzistèntan (sh), póstojān (sh)

• Spanish: uniforme (es)
• Swedish: konsistent (sv), beständig (sv), konsekvent (sv), motsägelsefri (sv)
• Tagalog: maligo
• Turkish: bağdaşık (tr), üniform, homojen (tr)
• Welsh: unffurf (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} مُنْتَظَم (muntaẓam)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} eenvormig (nl)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 整齊／整齐 (zh) (zhěngqí), ^{(please verify)} 整齐 (zh) (zhěngqí)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} uniforme (es)

Noun

The uniform worn by a soldier from the Luxembourg Army

uniform (plural uniforms)

1. A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc.
   • 1932, Elmer Wheeler, Tested Selling Sentences (the Language of the Brain): Master Book:

     The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron.
     This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘ […] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.

   • F. W. Robertson

     There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.

   • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

     Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

2. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
3. (law enforcement) A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
   • 1996, S. J. Rozan, Concourse‎^[1], Macmillan, →ISBN, page 265:

     Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.

   • 2001, Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld‎^[2], Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 113:

     Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. […] He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”

   • 2004, Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful‎^[3], MacAdam/Cage Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:

     Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.

Derived terms

• full dress uniform
• mess uniform
• school uniform
• tango uniform

 

Translations

distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group

• Albanian: uniformë (sq) f
• Arabic: زَيّ m (zayy), زِي m (zī), زَيّ مُوَحَّد m (zayy muwaḥḥad)
• Armenian: համազգեստ (hy) (hamazgest)
• Azerbaijani: uniforma, forma (az)
• Belarusian: фо́рма (be) f (fórma), уніфо́рма f (unifórma), мундзі́р m (mundzír) (military, also), мунду́р m (mundúr), мундзе́р m (mundzjér)
• Bengali: উর্দি (bn) (urdi), ইউনিফর্ম (bn) (iuniphormo)
• Bulgarian: унифо́рма (bg) f (unifórma), мунди́р (bg) m (mundír) (military)
• Burmese: ယူနီဖောင်း (my) (yunihpaung:), တူညီဝတ်စုံ (my) (tu-nyiwatcum)
• Catalan: uniforme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 制服 (zh) (zhìfú), 校服 (zh) (xiàofú) (school uniform)

• Czech: uniforma (cs) f, stejnokroj (cs) m
• Danish: uniform (da) c
• Dutch: uniform (nl) n
• Esperanto: uniformo (eo)
• Estonian: univorm, munder
• Faroese: tænastubúni m
• Finnish: virkapuku, univormu (fi), sotilaspuku (fi)
• French: uniforme (fr) m
• Galician: uniforme (gl) m
• Georgian: უნიფორმა (uniporma)
• German: Uniform (de) f, Dienstkleidung f
• Greek: στολή (el) f (stolí)
• Gujarati: ગણવેશ (gu) m du (gaṇveś)
• Hebrew: מדים (he) m (madím)
• Hindi: वर्दी (hi) f (vardī), यूनिफ़ॉर्म (yūnifŏrm)
• Hungarian: egyenruha (hu), mez (hu), uniformis (hu)
• Indonesian: seragam (id)
• Irish: éide f
• Italian: uniforme (it) m, divisa (it) f
• Japanese: 制服 (ja) (せいふく, seifuku), ユニフォーム (ja) (yunifōmu)
• Kabuverdianu: bata
• Kazakh: униформа (uniforma), киім (kiım), форма (forma)
• Khmer: ឯកសណ្ឋាន (ʼaek sɑnthaan)
• Korean: 제복(制服) (ko) (jebok), 유니폼 (ko) (yunipom), 교복(校服) (ko) (gyobok) (school uniform)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: unîform (ku), unîforma (ku)

• Kyrgyz: форма (ky) (forma), униформа (uniforma)
• Lao: ເຄື່ອງແບບ (khư̄ang bǣp)
• Latin: ornatus m
• Latvian: uniforma f
• Lithuanian: uniforma f
• Macedonian: унифо́рма f (unifórma), мундир m (mundir) (military)
• Malay: pakaian seragam, uniform
• Norman: unniforme m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uniform m or f

  Nynorsk: uniform f

• Pashto: وردي f (wǝrdi), يونيفورم (ps) m (yuniform)
• Persian: اونیفرم (uniform), لباس فرم (lebâs-e form)
• Polish: mundur (pl) m, mundurek (pl) m (school uniform), uniform (pl) m (rare)
• Portuguese: uniforme (pt) m, farda (pt)
• Romanian: uniformă (ro) f
• Russian: фо́рма (ru) f (fórma), унифо́рма (ru) f (unifórma), мунди́р (ru) m (mundír) (military, also), обмундирова́ние (ru) n (obmundirovánije) (military, also)
• Scottish Gaelic: èideadh m, culaidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀дора f, у̀нифо̄рма f

  Roman: òdora (sh) f, ùnifōrma (sh) f

• Slovak: uniforma f, rovnošata f
• Slovene: uniforma (sl) f
• Spanish: uniforme (es) m
• Swahili: sare (sw), yunifomu (sw)
• Swedish: uniform (sv) c
• Tajik: форма (tg) (forma), униформа (uniforma)
• Tamil: சீருடை (ta) (cīruṭai)
• Thai: เครื่องแบบ (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-bɛ̀ɛp), ยูนิฟอร์ม (th) (yuu-ní-fɔɔm)
• Turkish: üniforma (tr)
• Ukrainian: фо́рма (uk) f (fórma), уніфо́рма f (unifórma), однострі́й m (odnostríj), мунди́р m (mundýr) (military, also)
• Urdu: وَرْدی (ur) f (vardī)
• Uyghur: فورما (forma)
• Uzbek: forma (uz), uniforma
• Vietnamese: đồng phục (vi)
• Volapük: leiged (vo)
• Welsh: ffurfwisg f, iwnifform f, iwnifformau f pl
• Yiddish: מונדיר (mundir)

Verb

uniform (third-person singular simple present uniforms, present participle uniforming, simple past and past participle uniformed)

1. (transitive) To clothe in a uniform.
   • 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige‎^[4]:

     You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers.

Translations

to clothe in a uniform

• Bulgarian: обличам в униформa (obličam v uniforma)
• Danish: uniformere (da)
• German: uniformieren

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin ūnifōrmis.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ˈy.niˌfɔrm/
• Hyphenation: uni‧form

Noun

uniform n (plural uniformen, diminutive uniformpje n)

1. uniform; a distinctive outfit [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

• politie-uniform

Descendants

• Afrikaans: uniform

Pronunciation 2

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˌyniˈfɔrm/
• Hyphenation: uni‧form
• Rhymes: -ɔrm

Adjective

uniform (comparative uniformer, superlative uniformst)

1. uniform [from 16th c.]

   Synonym: eenvormig

   Antonyms: veelvormig, pluriform, polymorf

Declension

Declension of uniform
uninflected	uniform
inflected	uniforme
comparative	uniformer
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		uniform	uniformer	het uniformst het uniformste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	uniforme	uniformere	uniformste
	n. sing.	uniform	uniformer	uniformste
	plural	uniforme	uniformere	uniformste
definite		uniforme	uniformere	uniformste
partitive		uniforms	uniformers	—

Derived terms

• uniformiteit

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: uniform

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

uniform m or f (definite singular uniforma or uniformen, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)

1. a uniform

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

uniform f (definite singular uniforma, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)

1. a uniform

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French uniforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈɲi.fɔrm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ifɔrm
• Syllabification: u‧ni‧form

Noun

uniform m inan

1. (rare) uniform

   Synonyms: mundur, mundurek

Declension

Declension of uniform

	singular	plural
nominative	uniform	uniformy
genitive	uniformu	uniformów
dative	uniformowi	uniformom
accusative	uniform	uniformy
instrumental	uniformem	uniformami
locative	uniformie	uniformach
vocative	uniformie	uniformy

Further reading

• uniform in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• uniform in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūnifōrmis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌu.niˈform/

Adjective

uniform m or n (feminine singular uniformă, masculine plural uniformi, feminine and neuter plural uniforme)

1. uniform

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	uniform		uniformă		uniformi	uniforme
	definite	uniformul		uniforma		uniformii	uniformele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	uniform		uniforme		uniformi	uniforme
	definite	uniformului		uniformei		uniformelor	uniformilor

Related terms

• uniformă
• uniformitate
• uniformiza
• uniformizabil
• uniformizat
• uniformizator

 

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin uniformis.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

uniform c

1. Uniform; a distinctive outfit.

Declension

Declension of uniform

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	uniform	uniforms
	definite	uniformen	uniformens
plural	indefinite	uniformer	uniformers
	definite	uniformerna	uniformernas

References

• uniform in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (noun)
• uniform in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (adjective)