different between fescue vs straw
fescue
English
Etymology
From Old French festu (modern fétu), from Proto-Romance festu, from Latin fest?ca (“stalk, stem, straw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?skju?/
Noun
fescue (countable and uncountable, plural fescues)
- (countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
- ‘Now then,’ Mason rapping upon the Table’s Edge with a sinister-looking Fescue of Ebony, whose List of Uses simple Indication does not quite exhaust, whilst the Girls squirm pleasingly
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
- A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
- (countable) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
- with thy golden fescue play'dst upon
Thy hollow harp
- with thy golden fescue play'dst upon
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
- (countable) The style of a sundial.
Translations
Verb
fescue (third-person singular simple present fescues, present participle fescuing, simple past and past participle fescued)
- To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus.
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straw
English
Etymology
From Middle English straw, from Old English str?aw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *straw? (“that which is strewn”). Cognate with Dutch stro, Walloon strin, German Stroh, Norwegian and Swedish strå, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /st???/
- (US) IPA(key): /st??/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /st??/
Noun
straw (countable and uncountable, plural straws)
- (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
- (countable) A drinking straw.
- A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- (figuratively) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
- 1889, Robin Hood and the Tanner, Francis James Child (editor), The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 3, page 138:
- ‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw,
- Nor all thine arrows to boot;
- If I get a knop upon thy bare scop,
- Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
- He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw.
- 1889, Robin Hood and the Tanner, Francis James Child (editor), The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 3, page 138:
Derived terms
- strawhead
- strawberry
Translations
Adjective
straw (not comparable)
- Made of straw.
- Synonym: strawen
- Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- (figuratively) Imaginary, but presented as real.
Translations
Derived terms
See also
Verb
straw (third-person singular simple present straws, present participle strawing, simple past and past participle strawed)
- To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
- (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
Anagrams
- Swart, swart, warts
Middle English
Alternative forms
- strau, strawe, straugh, strau?, strawwe, stre, stree, stra, straa, strey, streaw, strew, streuw
Etymology
From Old English str?aw, from Proto-Germanic *straw?. Some forms are influenced by Old Norse strá.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /strau?/, /stre?/
- (Northern ME) IPA(key): /str??/
Noun
straw (plural strawes or stren)
- The remaining plant material after cultivation; halm, straw.
- An individual piece or section of straw.
- (figuratively) Anything slight or worthless; the least possible thing.
- (rare) A measure of weight for candlewax.
Related terms
- strawbery
- strawen
Descendants
- English: straw
- Scots: strae
- Yola: stre, strew
References
- “strau, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-19.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /straf/
Verb
straw
- second-person singular imperative of strawi?
Noun
straw f
- genitive plural of strawa
Further reading
- straw in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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