different between cushion vs tuffet
cushion
English
Etymology
From Middle English cusshon, cuschen, quesshon, from later Old French coissin (modern coussin), from Vulgar Latin *cox?nus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) with the suffix possibly after Latin pulv?nus (“pillow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
cushion (countable and uncountable, plural cushions)
- A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.
- Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
- A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
- A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
- The pillow used in making bone lace.
- An engraver's pad.
- (historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.
- (historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.
- (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
- 2007, Belverd Needles, Marian Powers, Financial Accounting: Media Enhanced (page 826)
- Interest coverage is important because it is an indicator of how much cushion a company has in making its interest payments.
- 2013, Stijn Claessens, Kirsten Forbes, International Financial Contagion (page 85)
- If one of the banks has a significant enough cushion of capital and a strong enough balance sheet, then it would not experience a bank run, and the domino effect in panel A would not have occurred.
- 2007, Belverd Needles, Marian Powers, Financial Accounting: Media Enhanced (page 826)
- (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
- (obsolete) A riotous dance, formerly common at weddings.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Descendants
Translations
See also
- pillow
- squab
Verb
cushion (third-person singular simple present cushions, present participle cushioning, simple past and past participle cushioned)
- To furnish with cushions.
- to cushion a sofa
- To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
- 1734, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties
- How many doughty monarchs, in later and more polite ages, would have slept in cottages, and have worked in falls, instead of inhabiting palaces, and being cushioned up in thrones, if this rule of government had continued in force ?
- 1734, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties
- To absorb or deaden the impact of.
- to cushion a blow
- 1903, Edward Porritt, "Poynings' Law", The Unreformed House of Commons Vol.II p.429 (CUP):
- the development of popular interest in Parliament made it less possible for the Privy Council in Dublin to cushion a bill which the Commons had presented to the Lord Lieutenant
- To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
Translations
References
cushion From the web:
- what cushions the bones in a joint
- what cushions the brain inside the skull
- what cushions your joints
- what cushions between the vertebrae
- what cushions joints
- what cushions the vertebrae
- what cushions bones
- what cushions go with beige sofa
tuffet
English
Etymology
From Old French touffel, diminutive of touffe (“tuft”).
Noun
tuffet (plural tuffets)
- A clump of grass or similar vegetation; a small grass-covered mound.
- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey.
- (furniture) A large cushion which may have an internal frame, used as a low seat or stool.
- An inflatable cushion serving as landing area for precision accuracy parachuting.
Translations
See also
(stool): footstool, pouffe, hassock, ottoman, tumpty
tuffet From the web:
- tuffet meaning
- what does tuffet mean
- what is tuffet miss muffet
- what is a tuffet
- what are turrets used for
- what is tuffet in spanish
- what does muffet rhyme with
- what do tuffet mean
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- cushion vs tuffet
- paraglider vs paraglided
- paraglided vs paraglides
- cowardly vs poltroonish
- abear vs abkar
- sharplings vs sharklings
- murrine vs murine
- coloured vs murrine
- fusing vs murrine
- cane vs murrine
- mosaic vs murrine
- glass vs murrine
- recrafted vs redrafted
- reglazes vs reglazed
- reglazed vs deglazed
- terms vs regratery
- terms vs regrator
- degrader vs degrades
- degraded vs degrades
- degraders vs degrades