different between sear vs snar

English

Alternative forms

• sere
• sare

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /si??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sere, seer, seere, from Old English s?ar, s?ere (“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh?ews- (“dry, parched”) (also reconstructed as *h?sews-). Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry, rough”), Low German soor (“dry”), German sohr (“parched, dried up”), dialectal Norwegian søyr (“the desiccation and death of a tree”), Lithuanian sa?sas (“dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek ???? (aûos, “dry”). Doublet of sere and sare.

Adjective

sear (comparative searer or more sear, superlative searest or most sear)

1. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.

Etymology 2

From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English s?arian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sau??n (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijan? (“to make dry”). Related to Old High German s?r?n (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”).

Verb

sear (third-person singular simple present sears, present participle searing, simple past and past participle seared)

1. (transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
2. To wither; to dry up.

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3. (transitive, figuratively) To make callous or insensible.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To mark permanently, as if by burning.

   The events of that day were seared into her memory.

Translations

Noun

sear (plural sears)

1. A scar produced by searing
2. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.

Translations

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, reas, sare, sera

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/

Adjective

sear

1. eastern, east

Synonyms

• an ear

Antonyms

• siar

West Frisian

Adjective

sear

1. painful

Inflection

Further reading

• “sear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

Akin to Low German and Old Dutch snarren, German schnarren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn??(?)/

Verb

snar (third-person singular simple present snars, present participle snarring, simple past and past participle snarred)

1. (obsolete) To snarl.

Derived terms

• snarl

Anagrams

• Arns, Nasr, RNAS, RNAs, sRNA, sarn, srna

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse snarr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stna?r/

  Rhymes: -a?r

Adjective

snar (comparative snarari, superlative snarastur)

1. quick

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse snarr

Adjective

snar (neuter singular snart, definite singular and plural snare, comparative snarere, indefinite superlative snarest, definite superlative snareste)

1. quick, swift

Derived terms

• snarvei

References

• “snar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse snarr

Adjective

snar (neuter singular snart, definite singular and plural snare, comparative snarare, indefinite superlative snarast, definite superlative snaraste)

1. quick, swift

References

• “snar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Low German snoor.

Pronunciation

Adjective

snar (comparative snarare, superlative snarast)

1. near-term, immediate, ready

   min snara återkomst

   my not too distant return

   inom en snar framtid

   within the near future

   inom den snaraste framtiden

   within the nearest future

Declension

Related terms

• snarlik
• snarstucken
• snartänkt