different between excrescence vs welt

English

Etymology

From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excr?scere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + cr?scere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sk??s?ns/, /?k?sk??s?ns/

Noun

excrescence (plural excrescences)

1. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:

     Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
3. (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [?w?rmp?] (adding a [p] between [m] and [?]), or -t (Etymology 2).

   Synonym: vyanjanabhakti

   Antonyms: svarabhakti, anaptyxis

   Hypernym: epenthesis

Hyponyms

• (phonetic): linking consonant

Related terms

• excrescency
• excrescent

Translations

See also

• (phonetic): intervocalic

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

From Middle English welten, from Old English weltan, wieltan, from Proto-Germanic *waltijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”). Cognate with German wälzen, Danish vælte, Swedish välta, Icelandic velta.

Verb

welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve

Derived terms

• welter

Etymology 2

Circa 1425, a shoemaker's term. Perhaps related to Middle English welten (“to overturn, roll over”), from Old Norse velta (“to roll”). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.

Noun

welt (plural welts)

1. A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.
2. (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
3. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
4. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
5. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
6. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
7. (heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
8. A feature resembling a welt.

Translations

Verb

welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

1. To cause to have welts, to beat.
2. To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

1. (Britain, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay.
2. (Britain, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.

Related terms

• wilt

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

welt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of wellen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of wellen