Bout vs Siege - What's the difference?

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Bout is a synonym of siege.

As nouns the difference between bout and siege

is that bout is a period of something, usually painful or unpleasant while siege is .

As a verb bout

is to contest a bout.

As a preposition bout

is (colloquial) about.

bout

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bught, probably from an unrecorded (etyl) variant of . http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bout?s=t See bight, bought.

Noun

(en noun)

A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant

a bout of drought .

(boxing) A boxing match.

(fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.

(roller derby) A roller derby match.

A fighting competition.

* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.

(music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.

(dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.

* 1809 , A Letter to Sir John Sinclair [...] containing a Statement of the System under which a considerable Farm is profitably managed in Hertfordshire. Given at the request of the Board. By Thomas Greg, Esq.'', published in ''The Farmer's Magazine , page 395:

The outside bout' of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade [...] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each ' bout .

* 1922 , An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor'', published in ''The Commercial Motor , volume 34, published by Temple Press, page 32:

It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.

* 1976 , Claude Culpin, Farm Machinery , page 60:

The last two rounds must be ploughed shallower, and on the last bout the strip left should be one furrow width for a two-furrow plough, two for a three-furrow, and so on. [...]

Verb

(en verb)

To contest a bout.

Etymology 2

Written form of a of "about".

Preposition

(English prepositions)

(colloquial) about

they're talking bout you!

Maddy is bout to get beat up!

References

English contractions ----

siege

English

(wikipedia siege)

Alternative forms

* syege

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A seat.

#(label) A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.

#*.

#*:Now Merlyn said kyng Arthur / goo thow and aspye me in al this land l knyghtes whiche ben of most prowesse & worship / within short tyme merlyn had founde suche kny?tesThenne the Bisshop of Caunterbury was fette and he blessid the syeges' with grete Royalte and deuoycyon / and there sette the viij and xx knyghtes in her ' syeges

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vii:

#*:To th'vpper part, where was aduaunced hye / A stately siege of soueraigne maiestye; / And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.

#(label) An ecclesiastical see.

#(label) The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.

#The seat of a heron while looking out for prey; a flock of heron.

#(label) A privy or lavatory.

#(label) The anus; the rectum.

#*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:

#*:Another ground were certain holes or cavities observable about the siege ; which being perceived in males, made some conceive there might be also a feminine nature in them.

#(label) Excrements, stool, fecal matter.

#*1610 , (The Tempest) , by (William Shakespeare), act 2 scene 2

#*:Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou / to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?

#(label) Rank; grade; station; estimation.

#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

#*:I fetch my life and being / From men of royal siege .

#(label) The floor of a glass-furnace.

#(label) A workman's bench.

#:(Knight)

(label) Military action.

#A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.

#*1748 , (David Hume), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3 §5:

#*:The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.

#(label) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.

#(label) A prolonged assault or attack.

#*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= England 1-0 Ukraine , passage=But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.}}

Derived terms

Verb

(sieg)

To assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.