different between oak vs chestnut

English

Etymology

From Middle English ook, oke, aik, ake, from Old English ?c (also as Old English ??), from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey?- (“oak”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /o?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k/
• enPR: ?k
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

oak (countable and uncountable, plural oaks)

2. (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
   • Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks, and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

3. (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
4. A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.

5. Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
6. Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
   1. The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
   2. Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
   3. Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
   4. Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
   5. Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
7. The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase "to sport one's oak").
   • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Prout's Lovely Black Eye

     It was hardly the thing for a master to sport his oak where another member of the staff was concerned.

   • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

     The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.

8. (wine) The flavor of oak.

Alternative forms

• (oak tree): woak, yack (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete)

Hypernyms

• (oak tree): tree

Meronyms

• (oak tree): acorn

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

oak (not comparable)

1. having a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
2. made of oak wood or timber

   an oak table, oak beam, etc

Synonyms

• (made of oak): oaken

Translations

Verb

oak (third-person singular simple present oaks, present participle oaking, simple past and past participle oaked)

1. (wine, transitive) To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

• oak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• oak at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• A-OK, AOK, Kao, Oka, koa, oka

English

Etymology

Formerly chesten nut, from Middle English chesten, Middle English chesteyne, chasteine, from Old English ?isten and reinforced by Old French chastaigne, both from Latin cast?nea, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kastáneia).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t??s.n?t/, /?t??st.n?t/

Noun

chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural chestnuts)

1. A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
2. A nut of this tree or shrub.
3. (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree.

4. A reddish-brown horse.
5. (uncountable) The wood of a chestnut tree.
6. An old joke; a worn-out meme, phrase, ploy, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome or ineffective (often in the phrase "old chestnut").
7. A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human.

   Synonym: night eye

8. (Britain) The horse-chestnut.

Synonyms

• (tree): chestnut tree

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Gujarati: ??????? (ces?ana?)

Translations

Adjective

chestnut (not comparable)

1. Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.

Translations

Related terms

• castanet

See also

• chestnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Chesnutt