Borne vs Pulley - What's the difference?
borne | pulley |
carried, supported.
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* 1881: ", Poems , page
* c.2000 - , II
* 1907 , , The Dust of Conflict chapter 21 [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4429277W]
*:“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.”
One of the simple machines; a wheel with a grooved rim in which a pulled rope or chain will lift an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).
As verbs the difference between borne and pulley
is that borne is while pulley is to raise or lift by means of a pulley.As a adjective borne
is carried, supported.As a noun pulley is
one of the simple machines; a wheel with a grooved rim in which a pulled rope or chain will lift an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).borne
English
Adjective
(-)- In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
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- When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
- Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.