different between collet vs beazle

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?l?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t
• Hyphenation: col?let

Etymology 1

From Middle French collet.

Noun

collet (plural collets)

1. A band, flange, ferrule, or collar, designed to grip and hold a tool or a workpiece under proper control, and usually to release it under control thereafter; such a collet usually is made of a hard, springy material, especially a metal.

2. (jewelry) The rim (of a ring) within which a jewel is set.

   Synonym: bezel

3. (horticulture) In an embryonic plant, the transition zone between the root and the hypocotyl (not clearly distinguishable in most plants.)

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

collet (plural collets)

1. Alternative form of colet.

Further reading

• collet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From coll (“hill”) +? -et.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ko???t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku???t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko??et/

Noun

collet m (plural collets)

1. (chiefly in toponyms) small hill

   Synonym: pujol

Further reading

• “collet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “collet” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

French

Etymology

From Middle French collet; equivalent to col +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l?/

Noun

collet m (plural collets)

1. (obsolete) collar
2. snare, noose
3. (short) cape
4. (dentistry) neck (of tooth)
5. (botany) neck

Derived terms

• colletin
• collet monté

Further reading

• “collet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Latin collum (“neck”) (modern co) +? -et.

Noun

collet m (plural collets)

1. (Jersey) collar
2. (Jersey) oarweed (Laminaria digitata, Laminaria saccharina)

English

Etymology

See bezel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?bi?z??]

Noun

beazle (plural beazles)

1. (rare) A bezel (collet of a ring, the rim which encloses the jewel and into which the jewel is set).
   • 1810, The Primitives of the Greek Tongue, a translation of a French work by T. Nugent; a gloss of a Greek word on page 187:

     The beazle or collet of a ring, that which contains the apple of the eye, a kind of ornament of women.

   • 1847, G. S. Bedford, translator of A Practical Treatise on Midwifery, by Nicolas Charles Chailly-Honoré, page 470:

     Now let us suppose that the placenta is inserted on one of these muscles, which is not at all uncommon, and that the circular fibres, the most remote from the orifice of the tube, should contract spasmodically, the after-birth will be enclosed in this species of cavity, as a stone in the beazle of a ring (dans le chaton d'une bague).

   • 1889, A group of Eastern Romances and Stories, from the Persian, Tamil, and Urdu, translated by W. A. Clouston; The Three Deceitful Women, page 355:

     ONCE on a time there were three whales of the sea of fraud and deceit — three dragons of the nature of thunder and the quickness of lightning — three defamers of honor and reputation — in other words, three men-deceiving, lascivious women [...]. One of them was sitting in the court of justice of the Kází's embraces; the second was the precious gem of the bazár-master's diadem of compliance; and the third was the beazle and ornament of the signet-ring of the life and soul of the superintendent of police. They were constantly entrapping the fawns of the prairie of deceit, [...]

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:beazle.

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