Amalgam vs Stew - What's the difference?

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Amalgam is a related term of stew.

As a noun amalgam

is amalgam (alloy containing mercury).

As a proper noun stew is

a diminutive of the male given name stewart .

amalgam

English

(wikipedia amalgam)

Noun

(amalgams)

(metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury

A combination of different things

Synonyms

* alloy, blend, combo, compound, mixture

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic, ambitransitive) To amalgamate.

(Boyle)

(Ben Jonson)

References

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Noun

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Declension

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stew

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) estuve (modern French .

Noun

(en-noun)

(label) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

*:And when he came to the chamber there as this lady was the dores of yron vnlocked and vnbolted / And so syr launcelot wente in to the chambre that was as hote as ony stewe / And there syr launcelot toke the fayrest lady by the hand / that euer he sawe / and she was naked as a nedel

(label) A brothel.

*1681 , (John Dryden), (Absalom and Achitophel)

*:And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews .

*1835 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), Sir James Mackintosh

*:Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews .

*1977 , Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld , Folio Society, 2006, p.37:

*:Although whores were permitted to sit at the door of the stew , they could not solicit in any way nor ‘chide or throw stones’ at passers-by.

(label) A prostitute.

*1870 , Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Wordsworth Classics, 1998, p.367:

*:I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew .

(label) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.

An artificial bed of oysters.

(label) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

Synonyms

* (food) casserole, (British) hotpot

Coordinate terms

* casserole * cassoulet * goulash * ragout

Derived terms

* in a stew * stewpot

Verb

(en verb)

(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.

The meat is stewing nicely.

To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

(figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

(figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

Synonyms

* (suffer under hot conditions) bake, boil, sweat, swelter * (be in a state of elevated anxiety) brood, fret, sweat, worry

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of steward or stewardess.

Noun

(en noun)

A steward or stewardess on an airplane.

* 1975 November 3, , volume 8, number 44, page 8 [http://google.com/books?id=OekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=stew]:

And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man.

* 1991 , , 1992 edition, ISBN 0425184226, page 480 [http://google.com/books?id=kP84eUjxv-MC&pg=PA480&dq=stew]:

"We want to know what he's going to be saying on his airplane."

"I don't have the legs to dress up as a stew , doc. Besides, I never learned to do the tea ceremony, either."

* 1992 January, Skip Hollandsworth, "Doing the Hustle", , ISSN 0148-7736, volume 20, issue 1, page 52 [http://google.com/books?id=dysEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&dq=stew]:

Dallas was also becoming known as a "stew zoo" because so many flight attendants were relocating there to work for Southwest, Braniff, and American Airlines.

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