Agitate vs Popple - What's the difference?
agitate | popple |
To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
(rare) To move or actuate.
:(Thomson)
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
:(Boyle)
To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
(dialect) poplar
* 1911 , Highways and byways of the Great Lakes , The Macmillan company, page 264
Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind).
*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=17 Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.
To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.
As verbs the difference between agitate and popple
is that agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel while popple is of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.As a noun popple is
(dialect) poplar or popple can be choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind).agitate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.
Synonyms
* move, shake, excite, rouse, disturb, distract, revolve, discuss, debate, canvassExternal links
* * * ----popple
English
Alternative forms
* popleEtymology 1
(etyl) popul, popil, from (etyl) popul, from (etyl) populusNoun
(en noun)- Some of them had recently built a pulp mill, and he called my attention to the young growths of "popple'" we could see from the car window and remarked: "There's good pulp material in those trees, but it's not easy to get 'em cut. You'll strike lots of Catholic lumber-jacks who won't have anything to do with cutting a '''popple''' tree, and they won't cross a bridge or sleep in a house that has '''popple''' wood in it. There's a tradition that the cross on which Christ was crucified was of ' popple , and they say the wood was cursed on that account.
Etymology 2
(etyl) poplen, possibly from (etyl), of imitative origin English onomatopoeiasNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.}}
Verb
(poppl)- (Cotton)