different between dregs vs sentine

English

Etymology

See dreg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Noun

dregs pl (plural only)

1. (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
2. (figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.

   the dregs of society

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 9

     Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my race - that I was The Last Man.

Usage notes

• The singular form dreg is far less common, but the phrase to the last dreg still has currency.

Synonyms

• debris, deposit, draff, dross, exuviate, feculence, grounds, grouts, lees, loser, orts, outcast, rabble, refuse, residue, residuum, riffraff, rubbish, scum, sediment, settling, trash, trub

Translations

Anagrams

• regds.

English

Etymology

Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”): compare French sentine.

Noun

sentine (plural sentines)

1. (obsolete) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

   • This alonely I can say grossly, and as in a sum, of the which all we (our hurt is the more) have experience, the devil to be a stinking sentine of all vices; a foul filthy channel of all mischiefs

References

sentine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• enseint, intense, tennesi, tennies

Italian

Noun

sentine f

1. plural of sentina

Anagrams

• intense