Word Confusion: Empire vs Empirical vs Imperial

Plural for the noun: empires

Plural for the noun: imperials

Noun:
An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, especially an emperor or empress ²

• Any monarchy that for reasons of history, prestige, etc., has an emperor rather than a king as head of state
• The territory included in such a unit
• The period during which a particular unit exists
• [Archaic] Absolute control over a person or group

Imperial or imperialistic sovereignty, domination, or control

[Commerce] An extensive enterprise under a unified authority

• An extensive operation or sphere of activity controlled by one person or group

A variety of apple having dark red skin and white flesh ³

[Medicine; of medical treatment] Based on practical experience rather than scientific proof

[Philosophy; of knowledge] Derived from experience rather than by logic from first principles

• [Of a proposition] Subject, at least theoretically, to verification

[Medicine] Of or relating to medical quackery

[Statistics] The posterior probability of an event derived on the basis of its observed frequency in a sample

• Relating to an emperor
• Majestic or magnificent
• Imperious or domineering

Relating to or denoting the system of nonmetric weights and measures (the ounce, pound, stone, inch, foot, yard, mile, acre, pint, gallon, etc.) formerly used for all measures in the UK, and still used for some

[Mainly historical; of a size of paper] Measuring roughly 559 x 762 mm (22 x 30 inches British; 23 x 31 inches US and Canadian)

Noun:
A member of an imperial party or of imperial troops ¹

• [Historical] A supporter or soldier of the Holy Roman Empire

A member of an imperial family, especially an emperor or empress

• Befitting an emperor or empress
• Regal
• Majestic
• Very fine or grand
• Magnificent

An article of exceptional size or quality

Of a commanding quality, manner, aspect, etc.

Domineering

• Imperious

Any of various book sizes:

• [imperial octavo] 7½ x 11 inches
• [Chiefly British; imperial quarto] 11 x 15 inches

A Russian gold coin originally worth ten roubles

[US] The top of a carriage, such as a diligence

[US] A luggage case carried on top of a carriage

[Architecture] A dome that has a point at the top

An oversized bottle used especially for storing Bordeaux wine, equivalent to 8 regular bottles (6 l. or 6.6 qt.)

[Also royale or impériale] A narrow pointed beard extending from the chin ²

Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine were major exponents of the Empire style.

Emblems, such as the golden eagle, classical palm leaves, and laurel wreaths were typical of Empire design.

Noun:
The Roman Empire’s fall began in 410 A.D.

He encouraged the Greeks in their dream of empire in Asia Minor.

“In pre-Columbian America, the Inca Empire was ruled by a Sapa Inca, who was considered the son of Inti, the sun god and absolute ruler over the people and nation” (Absolute).

She established a thriving publishing empire.

Apple, Amazon, and McDonald’s have established a global empire.

Each ministry, each department, had its own empire, its own agenda, and worked to protect its turf.

Have you tried those Empire apples yet?

Their empirical results prove the theory.

“No empirical data support his claim that the birth of a baby with Down syndrome makes the world — or the baby — unhappier” (Picciuto).

“It is at best an empirical test and must be interpreted in the light of clinical symptoms” (Todd).

“Empirical knowledge (a posteriori) empirical evidence, also known as sense experience, is the knowledge or source of knowledge acquired by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation” (Knowledge).

“Empirical laws theories are generally approached from the perspective of probability rather than absoluteness” (Miller & Berger).

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, healers used empirical knowledge to cure the sick.

“Empirical probability is based on a ratio of the number of attempts of a task to the number of a specific result, e.g., coin tosses to the number of heads or tails achieved” (Halton).

The imperial Romanov family was murdered in 1918.

The bedroom is huge and imperial.

He had the imperial manner down pat.

She looked quite imperial.

The party and its autocratic — many would say imperial — ways.

“The imperial system has a hundredweight, defined as eight stone of 14 lb each, or 112 lb (50.80234544 kg), whereas a US hundredweight is 100 lb (45.359237 kg)” (Comparison).

Imperial-sized paper is primarily used by artists and is known as full sheet in the US.

Noun:
“The Imperial Roman Army was the military land force of the Roman Empire from 27 BC to 476 AD,[1] and the final incarnation in the long history of the Roman army” (Imperial).

We’re taking a tour of the imperial palace.

“Russia, Italy, Germany, the United States, and Japan became imperial powers in the period from the middle of the 19th century to World War I” (Editors).

P.J. Ridout, a former member of the Imperial Fascist League, founded the British Empire Party in the early 1950s.

“The son of the Emperor who is the Imperial Heir is called Kotaishi (Crown Prince)” (Household).

The Imperial Plum is a great long reddish plum, very waterish.

That’ll be ten imperials.

Throw their imperials up on the imperial of the diligence.

The imperial dome took up much of the skyline, and it has since been filled with these buildings.

The difference between an imperial octavo and an imperial quarto is how many folds, leaves, and pages one can get from a sheet of paper.

The Imperial holds the same amount as the Methuselah, but their shapes are different.

A type of goatee, the imperial beard is a mustache with a disconnected chin patch.

1. 1804-1815, after the First Empire of France.
2. Middle English via the Old French from the Latin imperium, related to imperare meaning to command, from in- (towards) + parare (prepare, contrive).
3. Named after the Empire State, the nickname for the state of New York, where it was developed.

1. Late Middle English via the Old French from the Latin imperialis, from imperium meaning command, authority, empire; related to imperare meaning to command.
2. 1835–45 from the French impériale, the noun use of the feminine of impérial after Napoleon III, who wore such a beard.