different between sword vs xiphoid

English

Alternative forms

• swerd (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *swerd? (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh?w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic ???????? (sv?rd?l?, “drill”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??d/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /so(?)?d/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /so?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d
• Homophone: soared; sawed (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

sword (plural swords)

1. (weaponry) A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack.
   • Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
2. (tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
3. (tarot) A card of this suit.
4. (weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
5. (heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.

Coordinate terms

• (weaponry): bayonet, claymore, cutlass, dagger, epee, épée, falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sword (third-person singular simple present swords, present participle swording, simple past and past participle sworded)

1. To stab or cut with a sword

Anagrams

• words

Middle English

Alternative forms

• swerd, sord, sworde, zuord

Etymology

From Old English sword, a Mercian form of sweord (which some forms are directly from); from Proto-Germanic *swerd?.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME; from sweord) IPA^(key): /swœrd/
• (From sweord) IPA^(key): /sw?rd/, /swurd/, /surd/
• IPA^(key): /sw?rd/, /s?rd/

Noun

sword (plural swordes or (early) sweorden)

1. sword, sabre
2. (figuratively) Military might or power.

Descendants

• English: sword
• Scots: swerd, sword

References

• “sword, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-16.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sword/, [swor?d]

Noun

sword n (nominative plural sword) (Mercian)

1. Alternative form of sweord

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (xiphoeid?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?f??d/

Adjective

xiphoid (not comparable)

1. Shaped like a sword, ensiform.
2. (anatomy) Of or relating to the xiphisternum.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

xiphoid (plural xiphoids)

1. (anatomy) The xiphoid process.
   • 2000, Kurt Schwenk, Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates (page 466)

     In Asian pangolins the xiphoids are shorter […]