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Argent vs Thrash - What's the difference?

argent | thrash |

As nouns the difference between argent and thrash

is that argent is the metal silver while thrash is a beat or blow; the sound of beating.

As an adjective argent

is of silver or silver-coloured.

As a verb thrash is

to beat mercilessly.

argent

English

(wikipedia argent)

Alternative forms

* (heraldry)

Noun

(-)
  • The metal silver.
  • (tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
  • * 1909 , Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
  • The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent ".
  • (obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
  • * Tennyson
  • The polished argent of her breast.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of silver or silver-coloured.
  • (tincture): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
  • * 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
  • Synonyms

    * blanc, silver

    Derived terms

    {{der3, argentic , argentiferous , argentine , argentite , argentum nitricum}}

    See also

    *

    Quotations

    * 1667', Those '''argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost * 1733', Or ask of yonder '''argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? — Alexander Pope, ''Essay on Man * 1817', she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her '''argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy — John Keats, ''Endymion * 1817', Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine '''argent luxuries! — John Keats, ''Endymion * 1818', Two wings this orb / Possess'd for glory, two fair '''argent wings — John Keats, ''Hyperion * 1819', At length burst in the '''argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain — John Keats, ''The Eve of St Agnes * 1891',"A castle '''argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly. — Thomas Hardy, ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles * 1922', Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled '''argent , honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses * 1922', Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field '''argent displayed. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses * 1967', '''Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets

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    thrash

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To beat mercilessly.
  • To defeat utterly.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth. }}
  • To thresh.
  • To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
  • * '', 1987, ''John Dryden: The Major Works , Oxford University Press, page 364,
  • I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
  • (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
  • (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
  • Noun

    (-)
  • A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
  • * 1918 , ,
  • Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.
  • * 1934 May, ,
  • As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
  • (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.
  • Synonyms

    * (music) thrash metal

    References

    * (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.