different between raindrop vs vulture

English

Etymology

From Middle English rein-drope, reyn-drope, reyn drope, from Old English re?ndropa (“drop of rain, raindrop”), from Proto-Germanic *regnadrupô. Equivalent to rain +? drop. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Riendruppe (“raindrop”), West Frisian reindrip (“raindrop”), Dutch regendroppel, regendruppel (“raindrop”), German Low German Regendrüpp (“raindrop”), German Regentropfen (“raindrop”), Swedish regndroppe (“raindrop”), Icelandic regndropi (“raindrop”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?n?dr?p, IPA^(key): /??e?nd??p/
• (General American) enPR: r?n?dr?p, IPA^(key): /??e?nd??p/

Noun

raindrop (plural raindrops)

1. A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.
   • 1902, John Muir, "The Grand Cañon of the Colorado":

     It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries.

   • 1969, Hal David (lyricist), “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head”.

Hypernyms

• drop

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?lt??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?lt??/

Noun

vulture (plural vultures)

1. Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
2. (figuratively, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.

   Synonyms: ambulance chaser, vampire

Derived terms

• Egyptian vulture
• griffon vulture
• turkey vulture
• vulturelike
• vulturine
• vulturish
• vulturous

Translations

Verb

vulture (third-person singular simple present vultures, present participle vulturing, simple past and past participle vultured)

1. (figuratively, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.

Adjective

vulture

1. (obsolete) ravenous; rapacious

Further reading

• vulture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Noun

vulture

1. ablative singular of vultur