Arrow vs Straw - What's the difference?
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A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
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A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. ).
(lb) A directed edge.
A dart.
To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow)
To let fly swiftly and directly
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(obsolete)
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 153:
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
(countable) A drinking straw.
a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
*XIX c. , recorded by Francis James Child,
*:‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw ,
*:Nor all thine arrows to boot;
*:If I get a knop upon thy bare scop,
*:Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
*1857 , Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers :
*:He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.
*1881 , :
*:To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw .
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
As a noun arrow
is a projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.As a verb arrow
is to move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).As a contraction arrow
is (obsolete).As a proper noun straw is
.arrow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) earh, (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
Synonyms
* (projectile) streal * (in graph theory) arc, directed edgeDerived terms
* arrowsmith * arrow-finger * arrowhead * arrow of time / time's arrow * arrowroot * arrowy * straight as an arrowSee also
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Jermain Defoe dinked in an equaliser and Gareth Bale hit the crossbar for the hosts before Elliott Bennett arrowed in Norwich's winner. }}
Etymology 2
Representing pronunciation.Contraction
(en-cont)- though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money.
straw
English
Noun
Derived terms
* * strawberryAdjective
(-)- straw hat