different between grapes vs grapevine

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?ps/

Noun

grapes

1. plural of grape

Verb

grapes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grape

Anagrams

• Gasper, gapers, gasper, pagers, parges, sparge

Catalan

Noun

grapes

1. plural of grapa

Danish

Noun

grapes c

1. genitive singular indefinite of grape

Spanish

Verb

grapes

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of grapar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of grapar.

English

Etymology

grape +? vine

Noun

grapevine (plural grapevine or grapevines)

1. The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.

   Synonym: winetree

2. A rumor.
3. An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.

   Synonyms: jungle drums, bush telegraph, jungle telegraph, mulga wire, rumor mill

   • 1966, Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong (songwriters), "I Heard It Through the Grapevine":

     I heard it through the grapevine

     Not much longer would you be mine.
4. (skating) A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns.
5. (wrestling) A leglock.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

grapevine (third-person singular simple present grapevines, present participle grapevining, simple past and past participle grapevined)

1. (transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock.