different between ooze vs fen
ooze
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: o?oz, IPA(key): /u?z/
- Rhymes: -u?z
- Homophone: oohs
Etymology 1
- (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English w?s (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *w?s? (cf. Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos), from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh? (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit ??? (vás?, “fat”)).
- (Verb) Middle English wosen, from wose (wose, “sap”); see above.
Noun
ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)
- Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
- An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
- (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
- (obsolete) Juice, sap.
Translations
Verb
ooze (third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed)
- (intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To be secreted or slowly leak.
- 1868, Charlotte Riddell, A Strange Christmas Game
- I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.
- 1988, David Drake, The Sea Hag, Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.
- 1994, Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life, Vintage Books (1995), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.
- 2011, Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch, Flux (2011), ?ISBN, page 278:
- Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
- 1868, Charlotte Riddell, A Strange Christmas Game
- (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
- 1989, Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour, Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
- 1999, Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility, Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ?ISBN, page 16:
- There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.
- 1989, Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour, Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
Derived terms
- oozy
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English wose, from Old English w?se (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *wais? (compare Dutch waas (“haze, mist; bloom”), (obsolete) German Wasen (“turf, sod”), Old Norse veisa (“slime, stagnant pool”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weis (“to flow”) (compare Sanskrit ??????? (vi?yati, “flow, let loose”)). More at virus.
Noun
ooze (plural oozes)
- Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
- (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter
- Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter
- A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.
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fen
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanj? (compare West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen), from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). Compare Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit ???? (pa?ka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).
Noun
fen (plural fens)
- A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, "England, 1802," collected in Poems (1807):
- Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
- England hath need of thee: she is a fen
- Of stagnant waters […]
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, from Poems on Slavery:
- In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; [...]
- 1807, William Wordsworth, "England, 1802," collected in Poems (1807):
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- bog
- everglade
- marsh
- swamp
- wetland
Etymology 2
Noun
fen (plural fens)
- A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.
Translations
Etymology 3
From fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man.
Noun
fen pl (normally plural, singular fan)
- (dated, fandom slang) Fans; a plural form used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
Coordinate terms
- fenne
Derived terms
Etymology 4
Compare fend.
Interjection
fen
- (obsolete) Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.
Etymology 5
From Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew.
Noun
fen (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A kind of mildew that grows on hops.
Anagrams
- ENF, nef
Catalan
Verb
fen
- third-person singular present indicative form of fendre
- second-person singular imperative form of fendre
Chuukese
Adjective
fen
- holy
Synonyms
- pin
Adverb
fen
- past tense marker for verbs
- already
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f?n]
- Rhymes: -?n
Etymology 1
Noun
fen m
- fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan).
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
fen
- genitive plural of fena
Further reading
- fen in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin f?nitus. Compare Italian fino.
Adjective
fen (feminine faina)
- fine
- subtle
- pure
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanj?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
fen n (genitive singular fens, plural fen)
- bog, quagmire
Declension
Derived terms
- fenbressa
- fendíki
- fenjutur
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin faenum, f?num.
Noun
fen m (plural fens)
- hay
Related terms
- fenoli
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f?n]
- Hyphenation: fen
- Rhymes: -?n
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pän? (“grindstone; grind”).
Verb
fen
- (transitive) to sharpen, to whet, to hone
- Synonyms: köszörül, élesít, élez
- (dialectal) to rub, to smear
- Synonyms: ken, dörgöl
Conjugation
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
fen (plural fenek)
- fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan)
Declension
References
Further reading
- (to whet): fen in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanj?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Noun
fen n (genitive singular fens, nominative plural fen)
- fen, marsh, morass
Declension
Istriot
Etymology
From Latin faenum, f?num.
Noun
fen
- hay
Mandarin
Romanization
fen
- Nonstandard spelling of f?n.
- Nonstandard spelling of fén.
- Nonstandard spelling of f?n.
- Nonstandard spelling of fèn.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- fenne, ven
Etymology
From Old English fenn; from Proto-Germanic *fanj?. The "dung" sense is influenced by Old French fien.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?n/
Noun
fen (plural fennes)
- fen, bog, swamp
- dirt, muddiness
- dung, feces
- (rare) rubbish, refuse
- (rare) quagmire, lure
Declension
Descendants
- English: fen
- Scots: fen
References
- “fen, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “fen, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fanj?.
Noun
fen n (genitive fens, plural fen)
- bog, quagmire
Declension
References
- fen in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Föhn.
Noun
f?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- hair dryer
- (meteorology) foehn
Declension
Swedish
Noun
fen
- definite singular of fe
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ????? (fann).
Noun
fen (definite accusative fenni, plural fenler)
- science
Declension
Synonyms
- ilim
- bilim
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- what feng shui element am i
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