Braid vs Entwine - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between braid and entwine

is that braid is to make a sudden movement with, to jerk while entwine is to twist or twine around something (or one another).

As a noun braid

is a sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.

As an adjective braid

is deceitful.

braid

English

(wikipedia braid)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) braiden, breiden, .

Alternative forms

* brayde (obsolete), breyde (obsolete)

Verb

(obsolete) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.

(archaic) To start into motion.

To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.

* Milton

Braid your locks with rosy twine.

To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.

(obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.

(Shakespeare)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.

*, Bk.XII, ch.ii:

*:And than in a brayde Sir Launcelot brake hys chaynes of hys legges and of hys armys (and in the brakynge he hurte hys hondys sore).

:(Sackville)

A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.

A fancy; freak; caprice.

External links

* * * (commonslite)

Etymology 2

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) deceitful

* Shakespeare

Since Frenchmen are so braid , / Marry that will, I live and die a maid.

Anagrams

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entwine

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(entwin)

To twist or twine around something (or one another).

* Shelley

entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks

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Usage notes

Particularly used in attributive form entwined. Often used interchangeably with intertwine, with minor usage distinctions. In symmetric sense of two things twining around each other, such as the branches of two trees, narrower (term) may be preferred, but these are not strictly distinguished. In asymmetric sense of one thing twined in or around another – rather than mutually – such as a vine twined around a tree (but tree not twined around the vine), entwined is preferred.

Synonyms

* (twine around one another) (l)