Addict vs Hound - What's the difference?

Addict is a synonym of hound.

As nouns the difference between addict and hound

is that addict is a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug while hound is a dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals (hunt hound, hunting hound, hunting dog, hunter).

As verbs the difference between addict and hound

is that addict is to cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug while hound is to persistently harass.

addict

English

Noun

(en noun)

A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug

* He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.

An adherent or fan (of something)

Derived terms

* cyberaddict * drug addict * sex addict

Synonyms

* (person who is addicted) junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave * (adherent or fan) adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue * See also

Verb

(en verb)

To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug

To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.

* (rfdate), (John Evelyn)

They addict themselves to the civil law.

* (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) &

He is addicted to his study.

* (rfdate) (Adventurer)

That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.

* (rfdate) (Thomas Fuller)

His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.

* (rfdate), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

A man gross ... and addicted to low company.

(obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

* (rfdate) (John Evelyn)

* The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.

Synonyms

* get (someone) hooked * (devote) consecrate, dedicate, devote * (adapt) adapt, fit

Derived terms

* addicting * addictive

Anagrams

* English heteronyms

hound

English

Noun

(en noun)

A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. (hunt hound, hunting hound, hunting dog, hunter)

(by extension) Someone who seeks something.

* 1996 , Marc Parent, Turning Stones , , ISBN 0151002045, page 93,

On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.

* 2004 , , ISBN 0743486196, page 483,

I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound , because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.

(by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of receptive females.

* 1915 , , volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in ''Harper's Monthly Magazine , volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,

"Are you alone, Goodson?

"She had a good many successors, John."

"You are such a hound , in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."

A despicable person.

* Shakespeare

Boy! false hound !

* Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me

'You blackmailing hound ,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.

A houndfish.

(nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.

A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

In more recent times, hound' has been replaced by ' dog but the sense remains the same.

Derived terms

* Afghan hound * autograph hound * bloodhound * clean as a hound's tooth * gazehound * greyhound, grayhound * hold with the hare and run with the hounds * hound dog * houndish * houndlike * houndly * houndstooth * houndy * publicity hound * rock hound * sighthound * wolfhound * boar hound * hell hound * war hound * hounds of war

Verb

(en verb)

To persistently harass.

He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.