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Auger vs Portend - What's the difference?

auger | portend |

As a proper noun auger

is .

As a verb portend is

to serve as a warning or omen.

auger

English

(wikipedia auger)

Alternative forms

* augre

Noun

(en noun)
  • A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
  • * 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 231
    • Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger .
  • A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).
  • A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
  • A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.

    • Anagrams

    * * English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article ----

    portend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to serve as a warning or omen
  • * John Milton, Paradise Lost
    • A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,
  • to signify; to denote
    • Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended , Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.}}

    Synonyms

    * foreshadow * presage

    Related terms

    * portent * portentous

    See also

    * harbinger