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Grommet vs Curtain - What's the difference?

grommet | curtain |

As nouns the difference between grommet and curtain

is that grommet is a reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet while curtain is a piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc to offer privacy and keep out light.

As verbs the difference between grommet and curtain

is that grommet is to insert a grommet into while curtain is to cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

grommet

English

(wikipedia grommet)

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet.
  • (surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding) A young or inexperienced surfer, skateboarder or snowboarder.
    • What do you over the pond skaterboarders (SIC) say? Is there a global term to be used to label someone as a skateboarder? Does it matter? I suppose the only one you can apply widely is ‘grommet ’ .
  • A circle formed of three-stranded rope.

    • Synonyms

    * grom

    Derived terms

    * drop grommet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To insert a grommet into.
  • *
  • *
  • To fasten using a grommet.
  • To apply grommets.

    • References

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    curtain

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
  • *
    • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
  • A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what
  • (label) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
  • * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
    • Captain Rense'', beleagring the Citie of ''Errona for us,.
  • Death.
  • * 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
    • For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
  • (label) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
  • A flag; an ensign.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * curtain call * curtain-raise * curtain-raiser * final curtain

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

    • See also

    * blind * drape * (wikipedia "curtain")