different between grease vs greave

English

Etymology

From Middle English grece (“grease”), from Anglo-Norman grece, from Old French graisse, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (General American) enPR: gr?s, IPA^(key): /??is/
• (UK) enPR: gr?s, IPA^(key): /??i?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s
• Homophone: Greece

Verb

• (UK) enPR: gr?s, IPA^(key): /??i?s/
• (General American) enPR: gr?s, gr?z, IPA^(key): /??is/, /??iz/
• Rhymes: -i?s (UK, US)
• Rhymes: -i?z (US)

Noun

grease (countable and uncountable, plural greases)

1. Animal fat in a melted or soft state
2. (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
3. Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
4. Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
5. (slang) Bribe money.
   • 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type

     Some of the people I talked to said it could be done—but it would cost big money. More grease than I’d ever dreamed of.

Synonyms

• (animal fat): fat, lard

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

grease (third-person singular simple present greases, present participle greasing, simple past and past participle greased)

1. (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
2. (transitive, informal) To bribe.

   • the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor
3. (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
4. (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.

5. (transitive, slang) To kill, murder.
6. (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.

   • You have greased him
     For chewing love again in haste

7. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

Synonyms

• (put grease or fat on): lard
• (slang for kill or murder): bump off, hit, whack

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Eagers, Saeger, Seager, aegers, agrees, eagers, eagres, geares, searge, ægers

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?v, IPA^(key): /??i?v/
• Homophone: grieve
• Rhymes: -i?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English greve, from Old English gr?fe, gr?fa (“bush, bramble, grove, thicket, copse, brush-wood (for burning), fuel”), probably related to Proto-Germanic *gr?b? (“ditch, hole”). Cognate with Scots greve, greave (“grove”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“twig”), of unknown origin, whence Old Norse grein (“branch, bough”). Closely related to Old English gr?f, gr?fa (“grove”). See grove.

Noun

greave (plural greaves)

1. (obsolete) A bush; a tree; a grove.
2. (obsolete) A bough; a branch.

Etymology 2

From Middle English greve, greyve, from Old English gr?fa, gr?fa (“pit, cave, hole, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?b? (“pit, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reb?- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with North Frisian groop (“pit, sewer, gutter”), Dutch groef (“pit, hole, gutter”), German Grube (“pit, hole”), Icelandic gröf (“pit, grave”).

Noun

greave (plural greaves)

1. (obsolete) A ditch or trench.

Etymology 3

From Middle English greve, grayve, from Old French greve (“shin”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Egyptian Arabic ????? (“stocking, leg cover”). Watkins suggests a connection with greve (“part in the hair”), due to the resemblance of the medial ridge to a part in the hair, from graver (“to part (the hair); engrave”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *graban (“to engrave”); if so, related to Etymology 2 above.

Alternative forms

• greeve

Noun

greave (plural greaves)

1. A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:greave.

Translations

Etymology 4

From greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”).

Verb

greave (third-person singular simple present greaves, present participle greaving, simple past and past participle greaved)

1. (nautical, transitive) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

See also

• greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”)

References

Anagrams

• regave