different between grape vs wrestle

English

Etymology

From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krapp? (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). More at cramp.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?p, IPA^(key): /??e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Noun

grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)

1. (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
2. (countable) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis.
3. (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.

4. (uncountable) grapeshot.
5. A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
6. (US, slang, colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A person's head.

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Adjective

grape (comparative more grape, superlative most grape)

1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
2. Of a dark purplish red colour.

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Verb

grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)

1. To pick grapes.
2. (of livestock) To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
4. (dialect, north, Britain) To grope.
5. (dialect, Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).

Anagrams

• gaper, pager, parge

Danish

Etymology

Clipping of grapefrugt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?jb/, [????jb?], [????jb?]

Noun

grape c (singular definite grapen, plural indefinite graper)

1. A grapefruit.

Inflection

Synonyms

• grapefrugt

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rape]

Noun

grape f pl

1. indefinite plural of grap?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of grap?

Spanish

Verb

grape

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of grapar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of grapar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of grapar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of grapar.

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of grapefrukt.

Noun

grape c

1. grapefruit

English

Alternative forms

• wrassle (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English wrestlen, wrastlen (also as wraxlen), from Old English wræstlian, wraxlian (“to contend, wrestle”); corresponding to wrest +? -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wrosselje (“to contend, wrestle”), West Frisian wrakselje (“to wrestle”), Middle Dutch wrastelen (“to wrestle”), Middle Low German wrostelen (“to wrestle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.s?l/
• Rhymes: -?s?l

Noun

wrestle (plural wrestles)

1. A wrestling bout.
2. A struggle.

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Verb

wrestle (third-person singular simple present wrestles, present participle wrestling, simple past and past participle wrestled)

1. (intransitive) To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest
2. (intransitive) To struggle or strive
3. (transitive) To take part in a wrestling match with someone
4. (transitive) To move or lift something with difficulty
5. (transitive) To throw a calf etc in order to brand it
6. (transitive) To fight.

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Anagrams

• Lewters, Welters, swelter, welters