different between wrest vs weed

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: rest

Etymology 1

From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wr?stan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijan?, (compare Proto-Germanic *wr?han? (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wr?þan? (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wrei?-, *wrey?- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

wrest (third-person singular simple present wrests, present participle wresting, simple past and past participle wrested)

1. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
2. (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To seize.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
5. (transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.

Derived terms

• outwrest
• overwrest
• wrester

Related terms

• wrestle

Translations

Noun

wrest (plural wrests)

1. The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
2. (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
3. (obsolete) Active or motive power.
4. (obsolete, rare) Short for saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.

Derived terms

• saw wrest
• wrest block
• wrest pin
• wrest plank

Etymology 2

Possibly a variant of wrist: see the quotation. Wrist is also derived from *wr?þan? (“to weave, twist”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wrei?-, *wrey?- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”).

Noun

wrest (plural wrests)

1. A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

Etymology 3

A misspelling of rest, probably influenced by wrest (etymology 1, verb and noun).

Noun

wrest (plural wrests)

1. (agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.

Derived terms

• turnwrest

References

Anagrams

• Trews, strew, trews, werst

Middle English

Noun

wrest

1. Alternative form of wrist

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: we'd

Etymology 1

From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English w?od (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud, from Proto-Germanic *weud? (“weed”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”).

Noun

weed (countable and uncountable, plural weeds)

1. (countable) Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
2. Short for duckweed.
3. (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
4. A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
   1. (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
   2. (with "the", uncountable, slang) Tobacco.
   3. (obsolete, countable) A cigar.
5. (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
6. (countable, Britain, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
7. (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• grow like a weed
• weeds

Etymology 2

From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English w?odian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weud?n? (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).

Verb

weed (third-person singular simple present weeds, present participle weeding, simple past and past participle weeded)

1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

   I weeded my flower bed.

2. (library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

   We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.

Translations

See also

• weed out

Etymology 3

From Middle English wede, from Old English w?d (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *w?diz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

1. (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 5 p. 75[2]:

     Shee, in a watchet weed, with manie a curious wave

     Which as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gave

2. (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 3

     DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;

     And then to Leonato's we will go.

     CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

     Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
3. (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

4. (archaic, especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.
   • 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England, Second Book:

     In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Translations

Etymology 4

From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English w?dan (“to be mad or delirious”), from w?d (“mad, enraged”).

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

1. (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
   • 1822, William Campbell, Observations on the Disease usually termed Puerperal Fever, with Cases, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 18:

     The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a weed.

2. (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.

Etymology 5

From the verb wee.

Verb

weed

1. simple past tense and past participle of wee

References

• weed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Webster, Noah (1828) , “weed”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• (tobacco; a cigar): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary