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Blood is a synonym of spirit.


As nouns the difference between blood and spirit

is that blood is while spirit is spirit (alcohol).

blood

English

(wikipedia blood)

Alternative forms

* bloud (obsolete)

Noun

  • A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
  • * (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
    • a friend of our own blood
  • * Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
    • to share the blood of Saxon royalty
  • A blood test or blood sample.
  • The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
  • * 1841 , Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus , page 95:
    • It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
  • * 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
    • Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
  • * 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
    • Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
  • (label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
  • * Bible, (w) xiix. 11
    • He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
  • (label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
  • (label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
  • * (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
    • It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .
  • (member of a certain gang).

    • Hyponyms

    * menstruation

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bad blood , blood atonement , blood bank , bloodbath, blood bath , blood blister , blood brother , blood-curdling , blood diamond , blood donor , blood drive , blood eagle , bloodhound , blood is thicker than water , bloodless , bloodletting , bloodline , bloodlust, blood lust , bloody-minded , blood money , blood moon , blood orange , blood poisoning , blood product , blood pudding , blood relative, blood relation , blood sample , blood sausage , bloodshed , bloodshot , bloodsome , blood sport , bloodstain , blood-stained, bloodstained , bloodstream , bloodsucker , blood test , bloodthirsty , blood type , blood vessel , bloodwood , bloody , bloody mary , by blood , cold-blooded , first blood , for one's blood to boil , give blood , have blood on one's hands , have someone's blood on one's head , hot-blooded , in cold blood , make someone's blood boil , make someone's blood run cold , one's blood runs cold , 'sblood , smell blood , too rich for one's blood , warm-blooded}}

    Related terms

    * bleed

    See also

    * coagulation * sanguinary * sanguine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
  • To let blood (from); to bleed.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
  • To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

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    spirit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The undying essence of a human; the soul.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit .}}
  • * 1967 , MacCormack, Woman Times Seven
    • a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.
  • A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
    • A wandering spirit haunts the island.
  • * John Locke
    • Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.
  • Enthusiasm.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil Dawkes, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Sunderland 2-2 West Brom , passage=The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.}}
  • The manner or style of something.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • * Alexander Pope
    • A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ.
  • (usually, in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
  • Energy; ardour.
  • * Fuller
    • "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired.
  • One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
    • a ruling spirit'''; a schismatic '''spirit
  • * Dryden
    • Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
  • Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
    • to be cheerful, or in good spirits'''; to be down-hearted, or in bad '''spirits
  • * South
    • God has made a spirit' of building succeed a ' spirit of pulling down.
  • (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
  • * Spenser
    • For, else he sure had left not one alive, / But all, in his Revenge, of Spirit would deprive.
  • * Spenser
    • The mild air, with season moderate, / Gently attempered, and disposed so well, / That still it breathed forth sweet spirit .
  • (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h ; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Be it a letter or spirit , we have great use for it.
  • Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
    • the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document
  • (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
  • * Chaucer
    • the four spirits and the bodies seven
  • (dyeing) stannic chloride

    • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * community spirit * free spirit * Holy Spirit * in good spirits * in spirit (adverb) * in the spirit it was meant (idiom) * kindred spirit * methlyated spirit * moving spirit * party spirit * petroleum spirit * poor in spirit * proof spirit * pyroacetic spirit * rectified spirit * shad-spirit * spiritdom * spirited * spiriten * spirit-filled * spiritful * spirithood * spiritish * spiritless * spiritlike * spiritling * spiritly * spiritness * spiritous * spiritship * spiritsome * spiritual * spiritually * spirituality * spirit away (verb) * spirit gum * spirit lamp * spirit level * spirit off * spirit of hartshorn * spirit of salt * spirit of the law * spirit of turpentine * spirit of vitriol * spirit of wine * spirit rapper/spirit rapping * spirit stove * spirit world * spirit writing * surgical spirit * team spirit * that's the spirit * the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak * white spirit * wood spirit * zombie spirit (spirit)

    See also

    * ghost * soul

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 8, author=Dave Kehr, title=Buñuel at His Wildest, in Circulation Again, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel’s persuasive idea of hell.}}
  • * Willis
    • I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.
  • To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up .
    • Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.

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