different between advisement vs griff

English

Etymology

advise +? -ment

Noun

advisement (usually uncountable, plural advisements)

1. (now US) Consideration or deliberation.

   He took the situation under advisement, but was able to draw no conclusion.

2. (archaic) Advice, counsel.
   • 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:

     Her wisely comforted all that she might, / With goodly counsell and aduisement right […]

Scots

Etymology

advise +? -ment

Noun

advisement (plural advisements)

1. advice

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???f/

Etymology 1

Shortened from earlier griffin.

Noun

griff (plural griffs)

1. (India) griffin, (white) newcomer

Etymology 2

Compare grip, gripe.

Noun

griff (plural griffs)

1. (obsolete) grasp; reach

   • A vaine of gold ore within one spades griffe in the first turfe of the ground

2. (weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• grefa, griefo, griefs, grifa, griffa, griffo

Noun

griff (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, slang) marijuana.

Derived terms

• green griff
• griff house

German

Verb

griff

1. first/third-person singular preterite of greifen

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Gryph, from Latin gryphus, from Ancient Greek ???? (grúps).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rif?]
• Hyphenation: griff
• Rhymes: -if?

Noun

griff (plural griffek)

1. griffin (a mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle)

Declension

Synonyms

• griffmadár

References