different between liver vs creek

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English liver, from Old English lifer, from Proto-Germanic *libr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lieuwer (“liver”), West Frisian lever (“liver”), Dutch lever (“liver”), German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish lever (“liver”) (the last three from Old Norse lifr (“liver”)). Related to live.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: liv?er

Noun

liver (countable and uncountable, plural livers)

1. (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.

   Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.

2. (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.

   I'd like some goose liver pate.

   You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.

   • 1993, Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies, ?ISBN, page 222:

     "I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver."

3. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.

Usage notes

• The noun is often used attributively to modify other words. Used in this way, it frequently means "concerning the liver", "intended for the liver" or "made of liver" .

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

liver (not comparable)

1. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
   • 2006, Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain & Ireland, ?ISBN, page 298:

     His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.

Translations

See also

• detoxification
• fascioliasis
• gout
• jaundice
• Appendix:Colors
• foie gras
• heparin
• hepatic

Etymology 2

From Middle English livere, equivalent to live +? -er.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

liver (plural livers)

1. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World

     Try if life be worth the liver's care.

   • 2014, Walter Raubicheck, Anya Morlan, Christianity and the Detective Story, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (?ISBN)

     A great lover of the faith, a great defender of the faith, a great lover of life, great liver of life, great defender of life. And yet he plotted and planned over fifty murders, and carried each of one them out—if only on paper, and if only for our pleasure.

Quotations

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

Translations

Etymology 3

live (adjective) +? -(e)r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?v?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?v?(?)

Adjective

liver

1. comparative form of live: more live

   Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.

Further reading

• liver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Elvir, ervil, levir, livre, rivel, viler

Breton

Noun

liver m

1. painter

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

liver

1. (non-standard since 1917) present of liva

English

Alternative forms

• crick (dialectical US)
• crik (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English cr?ke, from Old Norse kriki. Early British colonists of Australia and the Americas used the term in the usual British way, to name inlets; as settlements followed the inlets upstream and inland, the names were retained and creek was reinterpreted as a general term for a small waterway.. Compare Dutch kreek, and French crique, both from the same source.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?k IPA^(key): /k?i?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?ik/, (Appalachia) /k??k/
• Rhymes: -i?k, -?k
• Homophones: creak, crick

Noun

creek (plural creeks)

1. (Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized waterbodies.
3. Any turn or winding.

Synonyms

• beck, brook, burn, stream
• (regional US terms:) run (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia), brook (New England), branch (Southern US), bayou (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Southeastern Texas)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin: kriki
• Sranan Tongo: kriki

Translations

References

Anagrams

• ecker