different between willow vs pasture

English

Etymology

From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English weli?, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ????? (helík?), Hittite ???????????? (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?l.??/
• Rhymes: -?l??
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?lo?/
• Rhymes: -?lo?

Noun

willow (countable and uncountable, plural willows)

1. Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.

   • […] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

2. The wood of these trees.
3. (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
4. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
5. A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.

Synonyms

• withy

Derived terms

• French willow
• Red Willow County
• Red Willow Creek
• weeping willow
• willow in the wind

Translations

Verb

willow (third-person singular simple present willows, present participle willowing, simple past and past participle willowed)

1. (transitive) To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.
2. (intransitive) To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.
   • 1928, Robert Byron, The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece, Chapter 12,^[1]

     Willowing over the rough cobbles of the little pier stepped a thin, bent figure, adorned with a silver nannygoat’s beard and bobbling eyes interrupted by the rim of a pair of pince-nez.

   • 1930, Talbot Mundy, Black Light, Chapter 7,^[2]

     Joe’s impulse was to sketch her, with her shadow willowing beyond her on the mouse-gray paving-stone; but his left fist, obeying instinct, remained clenched behind his back […]

   • 1985, Martin Booth, Hiroshima Joe, New York: Picador, p. 394,^[3]

     It was floating a foot under the surface. The eyes were holes. The mouth was a slit cavern of darkness. The hair willowed around the scalp.

   • 2013, Dean Koontz, Wilderness, Bantam Books,^[4]

     The draft-drawn smoke willowed down through the hole and across my face, but I didn’t worry about coughing or sneezing.

English

Etymology

From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin past?ra, from the stem of pascere (“to feed, graze”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??stj?/, /?p??st??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæst??/

Noun

pasture (countable and uncountable, plural pastures)

1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

   • He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
3. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

Synonyms

• leasow

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)

1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
2. (intransitive) To graze.
3. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, upstare, uptears

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin past?ra, from p?stus.

Noun

pasture f (plural pasturis)

1. pasture

   Synonyms: passon, pasc

Related terms

Italian

Noun

pasture f

1. plural of pastura

Anagrams

• ruspate, sparute, sputare, sputerà

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa?s?tu?.re/, [pä?s??t?u???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pas?tu.re/, [p?s?t?u???]

Participle

p?st?re

1. vocative masculine singular of p?st?rus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French pasture.

Noun

pasture f (plural pastures)

1. pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)

Descendants

• French: pâture

References

• pasture on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pasture, supplement)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin past?ra, from p?stus.

Noun

pasture f (oblique plural pastures, nominative singular pasture, nominative plural pastures)

1. pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)
2. pasture (nourishment for an animal)

Descendants