different between young vs blood

English

Etymology

From Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ?eong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yuh?n??ós, from *h?yuh?en- (“young”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: y?ng, IPA^(key): /j??/
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

young (comparative younger, superlative youngest)

1. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.

2. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 23,^[1]

     […] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]

3. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
   • 1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.'s Weekly, volume 8, page 462:

     And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young,

     Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.

4. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
   • 1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:

     The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.

5. (of a decade of life) Early.
   • 1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,^[2]

     […] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.

   • 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 1,

     Ephraim would be in his young thirties.

   • 2008, Alice Fisher, “Grown-up chic is back as high street goes upmarket,” The Guardian, 20 January, 2008,^[3]

     […] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.

6. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.

7. Of or belonging to the early part of life.

8. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 1,^[4]

     Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

Synonyms

• (born not long ago): youthful, junior; see also Thesaurus:young
• (having qualities of a young person): youthful, juvenile
• (of or belonging to the early part of life): juvenile
• (inexperienced): underdeveloped, undeveloped, immature

Antonyms

• (born not long ago): old, aged, grown up, senior, youthless, elderly
• (having qualities of a young person): aged, old, youthless, mature, elderly
• (of or belonging to the early part of life): senior, mature, elderly
• (inexperienced): mature, experienced, veteran

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

young (usually uncountable, plural young)

1. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.

   The young of today are well-educated.

(Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

1. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).

2. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
   • 2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21:

     There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]

Translations

Related terms

• youth

Verb

young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)

1. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
2. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
3. (geology) To exhibit younging.

Middle English

Adjective

young

1. Alternative form of yong

English

Alternative forms

• bloud (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English blood, from Old English bl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *bl?d, from Proto-Germanic *bl?þ?, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- ("to swell") + -ó- (thematic vowel) + -to (nominalizer), i.e "that which bursts out". Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bloud, West Frisian bloed, Dutch bloed, German Blut, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian blod.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bl?d, IPA^(key): /bl?d/
• (Northern England) enPR: blo?od, IPA^(key): /bl?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

blood (countable and uncountable, plural bloods)

1. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
2. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).
   • 1690, Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered

     a friend of our own blood
3. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
4. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
5. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
   • 1841, Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus, page 95:

     It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."

   • 1901, Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture, fourth edition, page 57:

     Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]

   • 1916, John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest, page 44:

     Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood. It is white and looks very much like water; [...]

6. (poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.

   • He washed […] his clothes in the blood of grapes.

7. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; mood
8. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 3:

     […] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […]

9. A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
10. (figuratively) Bloodshed.

    They came looking for blood.
11. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).

Synonyms

• (liquid): purging (when removed)
• (familiar relationship) background, descent, heritage, stock

Hyponyms

• lifeblood

Derived terms

Related terms

• bleed
• bloody mary
• bless
• blessing

Descendants

• ? Greek: ??????? (blánti)
• Torres Strait Creole: blad

Translations

See blood/translations § Noun.

See also

• coagulation
• sanguinary
• sanguine
• hemato-

Verb

blood (third-person singular simple present bloods, present participle blooding, simple past and past participle blooded)

1. (transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

   • The French gentleman and Mr Adderly, at the desire of their commanding officer, had raised up the body of Jones, but as they could perceive but little (if any) sign of life in him, they again let him fall, Adderly damning him for having blooded his wastecoat […]

2. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 121:

     Mr Western, who imputed these symptoms in his daughter to her fall, advised her to be presently blooded by way of prevention.

   • 1785, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 212:

     She had been blooded, he said, 12 times in this last fortnight, and had lost 75 ounces of blood, besides undergoing blistering,and other discipline.

3. (transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

Translations

Further reading

• blood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• blood at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• boldo

Dutch

Alternative forms

• blo

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bl?de, from Old Dutch *bl?di, from Frankish *blauthi, from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blo?t/
• Hyphenation: blood
• Rhymes: -o?t
• Homophone: bloot

Adjective

blood (comparative bloder, superlative bloodst)

1. (archaic) not courageous
2. (archaic) timid

Synonyms

• (cowardly) laf
• (timid) beschroomd, verlegen

Derived terms

• bloodaard

Related terms

• liever blode Jan dan dode Jan

References

• [2]

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Middle Low German blôt, from Old Saxon bl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *bl?d, from Proto-Germanic *bl?þ?.

Noun

blood n

1. blood

See also

• German Low German: Blood, Bloot

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blod, blode, bloode, bloud

Etymology

From Old English bl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *bl?d, from Proto-Germanic *bl?þ?, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blo?d/
• Rhymes: -o?d

Noun

blood (plural bloods)

1. blood

Derived terms

• herte blood

Descendants

• English: blood
• Scots: bluid
• Yola: blooed

References

• “bl??d, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.