different between swage vs wastewater

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?swe?d?/, /?sw?d?/
• Homophone: suage

Etymology 1

From Old French souage (“decorative groove”), from soue (“rope”), from Vulgar Latin *soca, from Gaulish *souca (“cord”), from Proto-Celtic *soca, from Proto-Indo-European *seu (“to twist, bend”).

Noun

swage (plural swages)

1. A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for shaping of a metal item.
   • 2003, Gene Logsdon, The Pond Lovers, University of Georgia Press (2003), ?ISBN, page 45:

     "I made a swage and hammered out the test bars to the required .615 inch plus or minus .003, the thickness of a sheet of paper. […]

   • 2005, Mike McCarthy, Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship, Texas A&M University Press (2005), ?ISBN, page 87:

     If he were making round or square-sectioned nails, the blacksmith also kept a "swage" near the anvil. If different sizes, shapes, and heads were required, the nailor had a a number of swages or a number of holes in the one swage.

   • 2008, Wilbur Cross, Gullah Culture in America, Praeger (2008), ?ISBN, page 73:

     […] The blacksmith let me help out, hold the horse while he was putting the shoe on, turn the hand forge, clean up the shop. And after awhile he taught me names of everything. He'd say, 'Boy, hand me the three-inch swage,' and I had to know just what he wanted. I learned that way."

Usage notes

A swage may be variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, but typically involves working with cold metal by forcing it into a die.

Translations

Verb

swage (third-person singular simple present swages, present participle swaging, simple past and past participle swaged)

1. (transitive) To bend or shape through use of a swage.

Translations

Etymology 2

From assuage by aphesis.

Verb

swage (third-person singular simple present swages, present participle swaging, simple past and past participle swaged)

1. Obsolete form of assuage.

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• waegs, wages

English

Alternative forms

• waste water, waste-water

Etymology

waste +? water

Noun

wastewater (countable and uncountable, plural wastewaters)

1. Any water that has been used in some human domestic or industrial activity and, because of that, now contains waste products.

Synonyms

• sewage

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