different between fodder vs pasture
fodder
English
Etymology
From Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English f?dor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dr? (compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder), from *f?dô 'food', from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to guard, graze, feed”). More at food.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?d?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f?d?/
- Rhymes: -?d?(?)
- Hyphenation: fod?der
Noun
fodder (countable and uncountable, plural fodders)
- Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
- 1598?, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona,Act I, scene I:
- The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.
- 1598?, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona,Act I, scene I:
- (historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
- (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
- (figuratively) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
- According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.
- (cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
- 2009, "Colin Blackburn", another 1-off cryptic clue. (on newsgroup rec.puzzles.crosswords)
- In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was[sic] as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where[sic] the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.
- 2009, "Colin Blackburn", another 1-off cryptic clue. (on newsgroup rec.puzzles.crosswords)
Synonyms
- (animal food): forage, provender
- (cartload): See load
Hyponyms
- (cartload): See load
Derived terms
- cannon fodder
- jail fodder
- fodder radish
- background fodder
Translations
Verb
fodder (third-person singular simple present fodders, present participle foddering, simple past and past participle foddered)
- (dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).
- Straw will do well enough to fodder them with
Anagrams
- forded
Middle English
Alternative forms
- foddre, fodre, foder, fodyr, foddur, voddur
Etymology
From Old English f?dor. Doublet of fother.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fo?d?r/
Noun
fodder (uncountable)
- fodder
Descendants
- English: fodder
- Scots: foder, fodder, fother, fothir
References
- “fodder, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-18.
fodder From the web:
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pasture
English
Etymology
From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin past?ra, from the stem of pascere (“to feed, graze”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??stj?/, /?p??st??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pæst??/
Noun
pasture (countable and uncountable, plural pastures)
- Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
- Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
- He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
- (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
Synonyms
- leasow
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)
- (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
- (intransitive) To graze.
- (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
Translations
Anagrams
- Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, upstare, uptears
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin past?ra, from p?stus.
Noun
pasture f (plural pasturis)
- pasture
- Synonyms: passon, pasc
Related terms
Italian
Noun
pasture f
- plural of pastura
Anagrams
- ruspate, sparute, sputare, sputerà
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pa?s?tu?.re/, [pä?s??t?u???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pas?tu.re/, [p?s?t?u???]
Participle
p?st?re
- vocative masculine singular of p?st?rus
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French pasture.
Noun
pasture f (plural pastures)
- pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)
Descendants
- French: pâture
References
- pasture on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pasture, supplement)
Old French
Etymology
From Latin past?ra, from p?stus.
Noun
pasture f (oblique plural pastures, nominative singular pasture, nominative plural pastures)
- pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)
- pasture (nourishment for an animal)
Descendants
pasture From the web:
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- what pasture grass is best for horses
- what's pastured eggs
- what pasture to sow in spring
- what's pasture raised
- what pasture weed is that
- what pasture-raised means
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