different between hearsay vs grapevine

English

Etymology

From Middle English hyere-zigginge (1340), here sey (ca. 1438), from the phrase heren seien (“to hear [people] say”). Compare equally old Middle High German hœrsagen (14th c.), whence modern Hörensagen.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hear?say

Noun

hearsay (usually uncountable, plural hearsays)

1. Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
2. (law) Evidence based on the reports of others, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under oath, rather than on personal knowledge.
3. (law) An out-of-court statement offered in court for the truth of the matter asserted, which is normally inadmissible because it is not subject to cross-examination unless the hearsay statement falls under one of a number of exceptions.

Derived terms

• double hearsay

Synonyms

• common talk
• gossip
• report
• rumor

Translations

See also

• as they say
• hear
• hear tell
• so they say
• you know what they say

Further reading

• hearsay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hearsay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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

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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.