different between whip vs birch
whip
English
Etymology
From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wipjan? (“to move back and forth”). Some similarity to Sanskrit root ???? (vep, “shake, flourish”), Latin vibr? (“I shake”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)).
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?p, IPA(key): /w?p/
- Rhymes: -?p
- enPR: hw?p, IPA(key): /??p/
Noun
whip (plural whips)
- A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
- The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
- The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
- A blow administered with a whip.
- 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)
- I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.
- 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)
- (hunting) A whipper-in.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 27:
- From the far side of the wood came the long shrill screech […] which signifies that one of the whips has viewed the fox quitting the covert.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 27:
- (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
- (UK politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
- Whipped cream.
- (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
- (African-American Vernacular) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
- 2017, Stormzy, Return of the Rucksack
- Big whip I'm underground parking
- 2017, Stormzy, Return of the Rucksack
- (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
- A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
- The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
- Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
- A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
- (music) A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
- (historical) A coach driver; a coachman.
Synonyms
- (last for directing animals): crop (especially for horses), dressage whip (especially for horses), driving whip (especially for horses), jumping bat (especially for horses), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong
- (lash for corporal punishment): cat (nautical), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong
- (political party enforcer): party whip
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- whip snake
Translations
Verb
whip (third-person singular simple present whips, present participle whipping, simple past and past participle whipped)
- (transitive) To hit with a whip.
- (transitive, by extension) To hit with any flexible object.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
- (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
- (transitive) To urge into action or obedience.
- (transitive, politics) To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
- 1677-1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises
- Its string […] is firmly whipt about with small Gut
- 1677-1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises
- (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
- In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.
- (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adirondac
- whipping its rough surface for a trout
- 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adirondac
- (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.
- (intransitive) To move very fast.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
- 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
- He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.
- 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
- (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
- (figuratively) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
Synonyms
- (to hit with a whip): Thesaurus:whip
- (to move very fast): flail
- thrash
- thresh
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- ghost ride the whip
References
- Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson: 1828. A dictionary of the English language 2nd edition. Publisher: William Pickering, 1828. 831 pages. Page 818. Google Public Domain Books : [2]
Further reading
- whip in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- whip at OneLook Dictionary Search
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birch
English
Etymology
From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English bir?e, bier?e, from Proto-West Germanic *birkij?, from Proto-Germanic *birkij?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH?os.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: bû(r)ch, IPA(key): /b?t?/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bû(r)ch, IPA(key): /b??t?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?
Noun
birch (countable and uncountable, plural birches)
- Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
- A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
- A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
- A birch-bark canoe.
Synonyms
- (stick, rod or bundle of twigs): makepeace, switch
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
birch (third-person singular simple present birches, present participle birching, simple past and past participle birched)
- to punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
- to punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
Derived terms
- bircher
Translations
Middle English
Noun
birch
- Alternative form of birche
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