different between tine vs barb

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tine, alteration of Middle English tinde, tind, from Old English tind, from Proto-Germanic *tindaz. Cognate with German Zinne. Compare also the related English tind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n
• Homophone: Tyne

Noun

tine (plural tines)

1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 9, pp. 45-46,^[1]

     Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.

2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
3. (dialect) A wild vetch or tare.

Translations

See also

• prong
• tooth
• tool

Etymology 2

Unknown origin, possibly related to etymology 1.

Alternative forms

• tyne

Adjective

tine (comparative tiner, superlative tinest)

1. small, diminutive

Derived terms

• tiny

Etymology 3

See teen (“affliction”).

Noun

tine

1. (obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine

Etymology 4

See tind.

Verb

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. To kindle; to set on fire.
   • 1700, John Dryden, The First Book of Homer's Ilias:

     The priest with holy hands was seen to tine / The cloven wood, and pour the ruddy wine.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd.

2. (obsolete) To rage; to smart.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.

Etymology 5

From Middle English tynen, from Old English t?nan, from t?n (“enclosure”) (modern town).

Verb

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. To shut in, or enclose.
   • 1852, Alfred Committee (translator), Alfred the Great, The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great, volume II, page 388:

     When I was then surrounded on every side by the fiends, and tined about by the blindness of the darkness, then hove I my eyes up and looked hither and yond, whether any help were to come to me, that I might be rescued; […]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Derived terms

• betine

Anagrams

• Tien, neti, nite, tein

Aromanian

Pronoun

tine

1. Alternative form of tini

Irish

Alternative forms

• teine (dated)

Etymology

From Old Irish teine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??n??/

Noun

tine f (genitive singular tine or tineadh, nominative plural tinte or tintreacha)

1. fire

Declension

Standard inflection (fourth declension):

Alternative inflection (fifth declension):

• Alternative plural: tintreacha (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "tine" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 teine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “teine” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 730.
• Entries containing “tine” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tine” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Noun

t?ne

1. vocative singular of t?nus

Middle English

Determiner

tine (subjective pronoun þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

Pronoun

tine (subjective þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thine”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þíðna.

Alternative forms

• tina (a-infinitive)

Verb

tine (present tense tinar/tiner, past tense tina/tinte, past participle tina/tint, passive infinitive tinast, present participle tinande, imperative tin)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to thaw

Etymology 2

Through French from Latin tina (“wine-vessel”). Akin to Danish tejne.

Noun

tine f (definite singular tina, indefinite plural tiner, definite plural tinene)

1. a traditional bentwood box

Etymology 3

From Old Norse tína.

Alternative forms

• tina (a-infinitive)

Verb

tine (present tense tiner, past tense tinte, past participle tint, passive infinitive tinast, present participle tinande, imperative tin)

1. to pluck or rattle to remove fish from a fishing net
2. to remove the awn from the grain
3. to extract a nut from its shell

References

• “tine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• eint, -inet, IT-en, nite, tein, tien, Tine

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin t?, as with mine, sine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti.ne/

Pronoun

tine (stressed accusative form of tu)

1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as pe, cu, la, or pentru) you

Related terms

• te (unstressed form)

See also

• mine
• sine

Yola

Alternative forms

• theene

Etymology

From Middle English tynen, from Old English t?nan.

Verb

tine

1. to shut, close

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??(?)b/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b

Etymology 1

From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard.

Noun

barb (plural barbs)

1. The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
   • 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus

     Having two barbs or points.

2. (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
3. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.

   • The barbel is so called […] by reason of his barbs, or wattles at his mouth.

4. (ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
5. (ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
6. (US) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.

   Synonyms: Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, southern kingfish

7. (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
8. (obsolete) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
9. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.

   Synonyms: barbel, barble

10. (obsolete) A bit for a horse.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

11. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.

Translations

Verb

barb (third-person singular simple present barbs, present participle barbing, simple past and past participle barbed)

1. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 544-6, [2]

     […] for this day will pour down, / If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower, / But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire.

   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Meg the Worker," [3]

     Her coat was a tangled mass, barbed with last year's burs, matted disgustingly with cow dung.

2. (Nigeria) To cut (hair).
3. (obsolete) To shave or dress the beard of.
4. (obsolete) To clip; to mow.
   • 1603, John Marston, The Malcontent

     The stooping scythe-man , that doth barb the field

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of Barbary.

Noun

barb (plural barbs)

1. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
2. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

Etymology 3

Clipping of barbiturate.

Noun

barb (plural barbs)

1. (informal, pharmacology) A barbiturate.

   Coordinate term: benzo

Etymology 4

Corruption of bard.

Noun

barb (plural barbs)

1. Armor for a horse.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 29:

     The defensive armor with the horses of the ancient knights ... These are frequently, though improperly, stiled barbs.

Translations

Verb

barb (third-person singular simple present barbs, present participle barbing, simple past and past participle barbed)

1. To cover a horse in armor.

Further reading

• barb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• barb (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Barb in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• BBAR, Rabb, abbr, abbr.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin barbus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ba?p/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?barp/

Noun

barb m (plural barbs)

1. barbel

Further reading

• “barb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Manx

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

barb (plural barbey, comparative barbey)

1. sharp, drastic
2. cruel, rough

Derived terms

• neuvarb

Noun

barb m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. sharp point, javelin

Mutation