Argent vs Thrash - What's the difference?
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The metal silver.
(tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
* 1909 , Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
(obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
* Tennyson
of silver or silver-coloured.
(tincture): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
* 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
To beat mercilessly.
To defeat utterly.
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To thresh.
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
* '', 1987, ''John Dryden: The Major Works , Oxford University Press,
(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.
A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
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(music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.
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 metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent ".
- The polished argent of her breast.
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* blanc, silverDerived 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 SonnetsAnagrams
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Verb
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- I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
Noun
(-)- 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.
- 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.