different between ochre vs mustard

English

Etymology 1

From Old French ocre and its source Latin ?chra, from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”), from ????? (?khrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ????? (ochrós)).

Alternative forms

• ocher (chiefly US)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)

1. An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
2. A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour

3. (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
4. (slang) Money, especially gold.
   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 6,^[1]

     ‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’

5. Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Welsh: ocr

Translations

Adjective

ochre (not comparable)

1. Having a yellow-orange colour.
2. (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.

Translations

Verb

ochre (third-person singular simple present ochres, present participle ochring or ochreing, simple past and past participle ochred)

1. To cover or tint with ochre.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, 1943, Chapter 14, p. 229,^[2]

     […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.

See also

• ochrous / ochreous
• kokowai
• ruddle
• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ??k??r??, but cf. Akan ?kr?mã and ?krakra (“broth”).

Noun

ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of okra.

References

• ochre at OneLook Dictionary Search
• ochre in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “okra, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004

Anagrams

• -chore, Roche, chore, ocher, roche

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English mustard, from Old French moustarde (French: moutarde), from moust (“must”), from Latin mustum. Compare Saterland Frisian Muster (“mustard”), Dutch mosterd (“mustard”), German Low German Musterd (“mustard”), Icelandic mustarður (“mustard”). Displaced Middle English senep, from Old English senep. Doublet of mostarda.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s?-t?rd, IPA^(key): /?m?st?rd/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?mas.t?d]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?m?s.t?d]
  • (Northern England) IPA^(key): [?m?s.t?d]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?m?s.t?d]
• Hyphenation: mus?tard
• Homophone: mustered

Noun

mustard (usually uncountable, plural mustards)

1. A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
2. Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.

3. The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.

4. Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.

5. One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C₂H₄Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
6. The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.

Synonyms

• senvy (obsolete)

Hyponyms

(vesicant containing 2-chloroethyl groups):

• mustard gas
• nitrogen mustard

Translations

Adjective

mustard (not comparable)

1. Of a dark yellow colour.
   • 2007, Cincinnati Magazine (page 81)

     Everything about her year-old restaurant, from the minimalist menu (about a dozen items) with refreshingly drivel-free descriptions to the decor (unadorned warm mustard walls, unclothed bistro tables), reflects her love of bringing people to the table for good, simple food that's not eclipsed by bells and whistles.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• must (grape juice)

See also

Anagrams

• durmast, murtads

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mostard, mostarde, mustart, mustarde, musterd

Etymology

From Old French moustarde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mustard(?)/, /?must?rd(?)/

Noun

mustard

1. A mustard plant; the plant where mustard seeds originate.
2. The seeds of this plant used as a spice or flavouring.
3. Mustard; a condiment made from mustard seeds.

Descendants

• English: mustard
• Scots: mustard, mustart

References

• “mustard, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.