different between silky vs velvet
silky
English
Etymology
From Middle English sylky, equivalent to silk +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?lki/
- Rhymes: -?lki
Adjective
silky (comparative silkier, superlative silkiest)
- Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk.
- cloth with a silky lustre
- silky hair
- Smooth and pleasant; seductive.
- a silky wine
- a silky voice
- silky skills
- (botany) Covered in long, slender, glistening hairs pressed close to the surface; sericeous.
Derived terms
- silky oak
- silky soft
Translations
Noun
silky (plural silkies)
- Alternative spelling of silkie
References
- silky in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “silky” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
Anagrams
- Kisly
silky From the web:
- what silky means
- silkie chicken
- what silky saws can be sharpened
- what silky hair means
- what's silky smooth
- what silky voice meaning
- silky what does it means
- what is silkys real name
velvet
English
Etymology
From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Late Latin villutittus, diminutive of vill?tus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v?lv?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?lv?t/
Noun
velvet (countable and uncountable, plural velvets)
- A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
- Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
- (rare) A female chinchilla; a sow.
- (slang) The drug dextromethorphan.
- (slang) Money acquired by gambling.
Derived terms
- black velvet
- Velvet Revolution
- velveteen
- velvety (adjective)
Translations
Verb
velvet (third-person singular simple present velvets, present participle velveting, simple past and past participle velveted)
- To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
- 1834, Edward Price, Norway. Views of Wild Scenery: and Journal, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Part I, p. 16, [2]
- Penmachno mill is situate where a stream has furrowed a deep channel, and velveted the rocks with the richest mosses […] .
- 1963, "Childe Harold in New York," Time, 6 September, 1963, [3]
- Last week the scaffolds were up in the hall once more. This time the back wall is to be velveted in absorbent fiber glass […]
- 1834, Edward Price, Norway. Views of Wild Scenery: and Journal, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Part I, p. 16, [2]
- (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
- 1982, Barbara Tropp, The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking, Morrow, 1982, p. 137, [4]
- Blanching cut and specially marinated chicken in oil or water prior to stir-frying is a technique common to Chinese restaurant kitchens. The 20-second bath tenderizes the chicken remarkably, hence the process has been dubbed "velveting" in English. Velveted chicken is half-cooked, will not stick to the pan, and needs almost no oil when stir-fried.
- 1982, Barbara Tropp, The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking, Morrow, 1982, p. 137, [4]
- To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
- 2014, "Top genetic selection produces biggest antlers," NZFarmer.co.nz, 12 July, 2014, [5]
- Reacting to painkillers when velveted, Sovereign II was too sick to grow antlers last year, but has since recovered.
- 2014, "Top genetic selection produces biggest antlers," NZFarmer.co.nz, 12 July, 2014, [5]
- (figuratively, transitive) To soften; to mitigate.
- (of a cat's claws) to retract.
Adjective
velvet (comparative more velvet, superlative most velvet)
- Made of velvet.
- Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
- (politics) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
- 1995, Amin Saikal, William Maley, Russia in Search of Its Future, page 214
- What at the time of the initial agreement of Yeltsin, Shushkevich and Kravchuk to join together in a new 'Commonwealth of Independent States' had seemed like a reconstitution of the lands of ancient Rus, quickly turned out to be, in the words of the leading Russian-Ukrainian reformer Aleksandr Tsipko, merely a 'velvet disintegration'.
- 2006, The Analyst: Central and Eastern European Review
- The disintegration always took place within internal borders, whether it was velvet, as in the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, or bloody, like Yugoslavia's still unfinished break-up.
- 2011, David Gillies, Elections in Dangerous Places: Democracy and the Paradoxes of Peacebuilding, page 248:
- If the Sudanese can resolve the final steps in a velvet divorce and move in a more democratic direction, that will serve as a heartening "ideal model of change" […]
- 2011, Javad Etaat quoted in Hooman Majd, The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge, page 39:
- “I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”
- 2014, Dana H. Allin, NATO's Balkan Interventions, page 97
- There is such a thing as a velvet divorce: if Canada or Belgium were to split apart, the consequences would be unfortunate but manageable.
- 1995, Amin Saikal, William Maley, Russia in Search of Its Future, page 214
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “velvet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Middle English
Alternative forms
- velwet, veluet, welwet, velvette, felwet
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan veluet, from Late Latin villutittus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?l?v?t/, /v?l?w?t/
Noun
velvet (plural veluettes)
- velvet (fine tufted fabric)
- Clothes made of velvet.
Descendants
- English: velvet
- Scots: velvet
References
- “velvet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-5.
velvet From the web:
- what velvet made of
- what velvet means
- what velvet cake
- what's velvet lipstick
- what's velvet underground
- what velvet revolution
- what's velvet elvis
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- silky vs velvet
- silky vs diaphanous
- slick vs silky
- silky vs ethereal
- still vs soundlessness
- soundlessness vs repose
- lull vs soundlessness
- soundlessness vs calm
- soundlessness vs tranquility
- soundlessness vs placidity
- quietness vs soundlessness
- stillness vs soundlessness
- soundlessness vs serenity
- propensity vs tantamount
- conterminous vs tantamount
- coterminous vs tantamount
- tantamount vs similar
- tantamount vs amounting
- amount vs tantamount
- tantamount vs messing