Seagull vs Mew - What's the difference?
seagull | mew |
Any of several white, often dark backed birds of the family Laridae having long pointed wings and short legs.
(orthography) The symbol , which combines under a letter as a sort of accent.
(UK, slang) A fan or member of .
To run in the back line rather than concentrate on primary positional duties in open play.
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To use a outboard.
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(New Zealand) To work as a non-union casual stevedore.
* 1964 , O. E. Middleton, A Walk on the Beach , M. Joseph (1964),
* 1981 , Parliamentary Debates , Volume 437,
* 1993 , Beryl Fletcher, The Iron Mouth , Spinifex Press (1993), ISBN 9781875559220,
(obsolete) A gull, seagull.
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(obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
(obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
(falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.243:
(falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
(obsolete) To shut away, confine, lock up.
* c. 1669 , John Donne, "Loves Warre":
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* Dryden
(of a bird) To moult.
* Dryden
Mew is a synonym of seagull.
As nouns the difference between seagull and mew
is that seagull is any of several white, often dark backed birds of the family Laridae having long pointed wings and short legs while mew is a gull, seagull.As verbs the difference between seagull and mew
is that seagull is to run in the back line rather than concentrate on primary positional duties in open play while mew is to shut away, confine, lock up.As an interjection mew is
a cat's cry.seagull
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(wikipedia seagull)Alternative forms
* sea gull * sea-gullNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (bird) gullDerived terms
* seagullingVerb
(en verb)Sharks beached at Stradey", BBC Sport , 13 December 2002:
- On hand was seagulling number eight Dave Hodges to cross for the all-important try.
Australia survives scare", The Age , 2 November 2003:
- That occurred in the 12th minute when flanker George Smith, seagulling out wide, enjoyed the rewards of a two-man overlap to score.
Impeccable France outclasses Ireland", The Age , 10 November 2003:
- France was full of running and continued to spread the ball wide or kick in behind the defence, where towering right-winger Aurelien Rougerie and the seagulling French back row had a height advantage contesting the high ball.
Injuries sour Wallabies 67-5 win over USA", MSN NZ , 24 September 2011:
- Samo seagulled for Australia's final try two minutes from time.
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- Bill had been seagulling on the wharf since he got back from the war.
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- At that time many of them seagulled on the Mt Maunganui wharf to make a crust in order to carry on with their ideal of kiwifruit as a major exporting industry.
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- The only stories he told of his life were of how hard he had worked, seagulling on the wharf, standing in blood and guts at the Works, loading trucks with sacks of fertiliser and grain at the Farmers' Co-op.
Anagrams
*mew
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mewe, from (etyl) 'to roar', Old Church Slavonic (myjati) 'to mew'.Noun
(en noun)- A daungerous and detestable place, / To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, / But yelling Meawes , with Seagulles hoarse and bace [...].
Etymology 2
From (etyl) mue, (muwe), and (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew , / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
- A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
Verb
(en verb)- To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall / Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall [...].
- More pity that the eagle should be mewed .
- Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air.
- The hawk mewed his feathers.
- Nine times the moon had mewed her horns.