Belonging vs Extricate - What's the difference?
belonging | extricate |
(uncountable) The action of the verb to belong .
(countable) (almost always used in the plural ) Something physical that is owned.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, dated) family; relations; household
* Thackeray
To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
(rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
* 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
As verbs the difference between belonging and extricate
is that belonging is while extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.As a noun belonging
is (uncountable) the action of the verb to belong .belonging
English
(wikipedia belonging)Verb
(head)Noun
- I have a feeling of belonging in London.
- A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
- Thyself and thy belongings .
- Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.
- Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons.
Synonyms
* (something physical that is owned) possession, thingextricate
English
Verb
(extricat)- I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
- The firemen had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
- Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated .