different between ovule vs grist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ovule (“ovum”), from Latin ?vum (“egg”). Doublet of ovolo.

Noun

ovule (plural ovules)

1. (botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.
2. (zoology) An immature ovum in mammals.

Translations

Anagrams

• Louve

French

Etymology

Latin ?vum (“egg”) +? -ule (diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.vyl/
• Homophones: ovulent, ovules

Noun

ovule m (plural ovules)

1. (biology) ovum
2. (pharmacology) ovule (dosage form)

Verb

ovule

1. first-person singular present indicative of ovuler
2. third-person singular present indicative of ovuler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ovuler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ovuler
5. second-person singular imperative of ovuler

Further reading

• “ovule” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

ovule

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of ovular
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of ovular
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of ovular
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of ovular

Spanish

Verb

ovule

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of ovular.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of ovular.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of ovular.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of ovular.

English

Etymology

From Middle English grist, gryst, from Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *gredan? (“to crunch”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rew- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with Old Saxon gristgrimmo (“gnashing of the teeth”), German Griesgram (“a grumbler, a grouch, peevishness, misery”), Old English gristel (“gristle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

grist (countable and uncountable, plural grists)

1. Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
2. (obsolete) A group of bees.
3. (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
4. (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.

Derived terms

• grist mill / gristmill
• grist for the mill (chiefly US)
• grist to the mill (chiefly UK)

Related terms

• gristle

Translations

Anagrams

• Grits, girts, grits, strig, trigs

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

grist

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of grissen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of grissen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• grisa, griset

Verb

grist

1. past participle of grise

Slovene

Verb

gr?st

1. supine of gristi