different between etiolated vs blanch

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?.t?.?(?).le?.t?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i.ti.??le?.t?d/, [-??d]
• Hyphenation: eti?o?lat?ed

Etymology 1

From etiolate +? -ed (suffix forming adjectives); modelled after French étiolé, the past participle of étioler (“to become pale and weak, etiolate”), from Norman étieuler (“to become plant stalks left over after harvesting to be used as fodder or for thatching”), probably from éteule (“plant stalks left over after harvesting, stubble”) + -er (suffix forming verbs). Éteule is derived from Old French esteule (“straw”), from Latin stipula (“plant stalk; plant stalk left over after harvesting, stubble; straw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steyp- (“to be stiff; erect”).

Adjective

etiolated (comparative more etiolated, superlative most etiolated)

1. (chiefly botany, horticulture) Of a plant or part of a plant: pale and weak because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight. [from mid 18th c.]

   Synonym: (dated) etiolized

   Antonym: nonetiolated
2. (horticulture) Of a plant: intentionally grown in the dark.

   Antonym: deetiolated
3. (by extension) Of an animal or person: having an ashen or pale appearance; also, haggard or thin; physically weak.

   Synonyms: emaciated; see also Thesaurus:cadaverous
4. (figuratively) Lacking in vigour; anemic, feeble.

Alternative forms

• aetiolated (obsolete)

Derived terms

• deetiolated
• nonetiolated

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:decoloured

Etymology 2

From etiolate +? -ed (suffix forming verbs).

Verb

etiolated

1. simple past tense and past participle of etiolate

References

Further reading

• etiolation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??nt?/, /blænt?/

  Rhymes: -??nt?, -ænt?

Etymology 1

From Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ley?- (“to shine”).

Verb

blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)

1. (intransitive) To grow or become white

   His cheek blanched with fear.

   The rose blanches in the sun.

2. (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach

   to blanch linen

   Age has blanched his hair.

3. (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
4. (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
5. (transitive) To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
6. (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding

   to blanch almonds

7. (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
8. (tntransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
9. (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;

   Synonym: palliate

   • c. 1680, John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture

     Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.

Translations

Related terms

• blanch holding
• parboil

Etymology 2

Variant of blench, of same Proto-Indo-European origin.

Verb

blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)

1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

   • Ifs and ands to qualify words of treason; whereby every man might express his malice, and blanch his danger.

   • 1624-39, Sir Henry Wotton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (published 1651), page 343

     I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.

2. To cause to turn aside or back.

   to blanch a deer

3. To use evasion.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Counsel

     Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French blanche (“white”).

Adjective

blanch

1. white

   Synonym: blan

Ladin

Etymology

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare Friulian blanc, Italian bianco, French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Adjective

blanch

1. white