different between tingle vs abrade

English

Etymology

From Middle English tinglen, a variant of tinclen (“to tinkle”). More at tinkle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t????l/
• Rhymes: -????l

Verb

tingle (third-person singular simple present tingles, present participle tingling, simple past and past participle tingled)

1. (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
   • 1913, Eleanor Porter, Pollyanna, Chapter 8:

     For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.

2. (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

3. (intransitive) To ring, to tinkle.
4. (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
   • 1874, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, fit 2:

     […] the Captain they trusted so well

     Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,

     And that was to tingle his bell.

5. (intransitive) To make ringing sounds; to twang.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13

     Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.

   • June 9, 1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round

     sharp tingling bells

Synonyms

• (to feel a prickly sensation): itch
• (to ring, cause to ring): tinkle

Derived terms

• tingly

Translations

Noun

tingle (plural tingles)

1. A prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

Translations

Anagrams

• Etling, elting, linget, niglet

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?e?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

• First attested in 1677.
• From Latin abr?d? (“scrape off”), from ab (“from, away from”) + r?d? (“scrape”).

Verb

abrade (third-person singular simple present abrades, present participle abrading, simple past and past participle abraded)

1. (transitive) To rub or wear off; erode. [First attested in the late 17^th century.]
2. (transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]
3. (transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]
4. (transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
5. (intransitive) To undergo abrasion.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English abraiden.

Verb

abrade (third-person singular simple present abrades, present participle abrading, simple past and past participle abraded)

1. (transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid

References

Anagrams

• Abdera, abread

Italian

Verb

abrade

1. third-person singular present indicative of abradere

Anagrams

• badare, baderà

Latin

Verb

abr?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of abr?d?