different between sabin vs savin

English

Etymology

From Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919), US physicist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?se?b?n/

Noun

sabin (plural sabins)

1. (acoustics) A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
   • 2012, Rupert Christiansen, ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review, Sep 2012:

     Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’.

Anagrams

• Bains, Basin, Bians, IBANs, Ibans, Nabis, bains, basin, nabis, naibs, nisab, nisba

English

Etymology

From Old French savine, from Latin sab?na.

Noun

savin (countable and uncountable, plural savins)

1. The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
2. The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:

     th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine, and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].

3. The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America.

Synonyms

• (Juniperus sabina): bastard killer, cover-shame, savin juniper

Translations

References

• Juniperus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juniperus sabina on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Juniperus virginiana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Juniperus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Sivan, Vinas, vinas

Finnish

Noun

savin

1. Instructive plural form of savi.

Anagrams

• visan