different between worry vs heed
worry
English
Etymology
From Middle English worien, werien, wirien, wirwen, wyry?en (“to choke, strangle”), from Old English wyr?an, from Proto-Germanic *wurgijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *wer??- (“bind, squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch worgen, wurgen, German würgen. Compare Latin urgere (“to press, push”), Sanskrit ????? (v?hati, “to tear out, pluck”), Lithuanian ver?žti (“to string; squeeze”), Russian (poetic) ?????????? (otverzát?, “to open”, literally “to untie”). Related to wring.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /?w??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w??i/, /?w?i/
- (General New Zealand, General Australian, non-standard) IPA(key): /?w??i/
- (West Country, nonstandard) IPA(key): /?w???i/
- (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- Rhymes: -?ri
Homophone: wurry
Verb
worry (third-person singular simple present worries, present participle worrying, simple past and past participle worried)
- (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly, to fiddle with.
- 1997, David Sedaris, "A Plague of Tics", Naked, page 15:
- So what if I wanted to touch my nose to the windshield? Who was it hurting? Why was it that he could repeatedly worry his change and bite his lower lip without the threat of punishment?
- 2002, Masha Hamilton, Staircase of a Thousand Steps, page 272:
- No stories, no arguments. He just worries his prayer beads.
- 1997, David Sedaris, "A Plague of Tics", Naked, page 15:
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To strangle.
- 1891, Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine (1891), Execution of the Judgment of Death, page 397:
- We read (Law's Memor. Pref. lix.) that "one John Brugh, a notorious warlock (wizard) in the parochin of Fossoquhy, by the space of thirty-six years, was worried at a stake and burned, 1643."
- 1891, Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine (1891), Execution of the Judgment of Death, page 397:
Synonyms
- (trouble mentally): fret
Derived terms
- beworry
- worried
Translations
Noun
worry (countable and uncountable, plural worries)
- A strong feeling of anxiety.
- An instance or cause of such a feeling.
- A person who causes worry.
Derived terms
- worrisome
- worryful
- worryless
Translations
Scots
Verb
worry
- (transitive) To strangle.
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heed
English
Etymology
From Middle English h?den, from Old English h?dan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-Germanic *h?dijan? (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kad?- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
- Homophone: he'd
Noun
heed (uncountable)
- Careful attention.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
Usage notes
- Often used with give, pay or take.
Synonyms
- (careful attention): attention, notice, observation, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention
Translations
Verb
heed (third-person singular simple present heeds, present participle heeding, simple past and past participle heeded)
- (obsolete) To guard, protect.
- (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
- 1567, John Dryden translating Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1
- With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
- 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
- 1567, John Dryden translating Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1
- (intransitive, archaic) To pay attention, care.
Translations
Anagrams
- ehed, hede
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English h?afod, from Proto-Germanic *haubud? (“head”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??d/, /?h?v?d/, /?h??v?d/, /?h?vd/, /?h??vd/
Noun
heed (plural heedes)
- head (top portion of a human or animal, connected to the neck):
- The place where one's head rests (on a bed or when buried)
- That which covers the head; headwear or hair.
- The head as the origin of thought; intellect or one's brain.
- horns, antlers (of a cervid)
- The chief, most renowned or most prominent thing or person in a group:
- boss, leader, executive
- capital city
- start, origin
- The topmost end of a body of water or a geographical feature.
- One of the lengthwise ends of a geographic feature having more length than width.
- headwater
- The top end or peak of something; the uppermost point of something.
- The outermost extremity, point or projection of something.
- The functional or useful end of a tool or device.
- A rounded or head-shaped bump, boil, or similar protrusion.
- One's ability to live (presumably as decapitation kills)
- impetuousness, rashness, impatience; being unconsidered.
- (by extension) individual; someone or somebody
- (rare) military force or troop
Alternative forms
- hed, hede, heede, hedde, had, hade, head, heid, hiede, hide, heyd, hyede, hyde, het, heved, haved, hefed, hewed, hafed, haphed, hived, hyved, hefd, hefde, hevd, efd, hevid, hevyd
- heid, heifd, heyd, heyfd (Northern)
- hevod, heveð, heaved, heaveð, eaved, heafod, heafoð, heafad, hæved, hæfed, hæfedd, hæfved, hafved, heofod, hevet, hefet, heavet, hæfet, havet, heafd, heafde, hæfd, hæfde, heifd, heyfd, hafd, hafde, hifde, hyfde (early)
Related terms
- forheed
- heedles
- hoggeshed
- spere-hed
Adjective
heed
- head
Descendants
- English: head
- Scots: heid
- Yola: haade, heade
References
- p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
- “h?d, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-12.
Etymology 2
Noun
heed (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hed (“heed”)
Etymology 3
Verb
heed
- Alternative form of hadde: simple past/past participle of haven (“to have”)
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