different between lecher vs amorphous

English

Alternative forms

• leachour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor (“glutton, sensualist, libertine”) , from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *lekk?n (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likk?n? (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (“to lick”). More at lick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?t??(r)

Noun

lecher (plural lechers)

1. A lecherous person.
   • 2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (page 202)

     The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Derived terms

• lech
• lecherous
• lechery

Translations

Verb

lecher (third-person singular simple present lechers, present participle lechering, simple past and past participle lechered)

1. To practice lewdness.

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (ámorphos, “without form, shapeless, deformed”) (itself from ?- (a-, “without”) + ????? (morph?, “form”) +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m??f?s/

Adjective

amorphous (comparative more amorphous, superlative most amorphous)

1. Lacking a definite form or clear shape.

   Synonyms: formless, shapeless; see also Thesaurus:amorphous

2. (by extension) Being without definite character or nature.
3. (by extension) Lacking organization or unity.
4. (physics) In the non-crystalline solid state of a typically crystalline solid.
5. (set theory, of a set) Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.

Derived terms

• amorphism
• amorphously

Translations

Further reading

• amorphous solid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia