What is the difference between brood and clutch?
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The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
* Bible, Luke xiii. 34
(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
The children in one family.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
* Chapman
(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
To protect.
To dwell upon moodily and at length.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Tennyson
To seize, as though with claws.
* Collier
* Shakespeare
To grip or grasp tightly.
* Shakespeare
The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
(by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
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* Carlyle
* Bishop Stillingfleet
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A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
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(US) An important or critical situation.
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(US) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
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* 2009 , Scott Trocchia, The 2006 Yankees: The Frustration of a Nation, A Fan's Perspective , page 21:
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A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
A group or bunch (of people or things).
* 2012 , The Economist, 22nd Sep.,
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clutch pedal
As nouns the difference between brood and clutch
is that brood is the young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother while clutch is the claw of a predatory animal or bird.As verbs the difference between brood and clutch
is that brood is to keep an egg warm to make it hatch while clutch is to seize, as though with claws.As an adjective clutch is
performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.brood
English
Noun
(en noun)- As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
- Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
See also
* flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin * cicadaVerb
(en verb)- In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
- Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
- He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
- Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
- when with downcast eyes we muse and brood
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) , of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb. Alternative etymology derives Old English clyccan from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l) (obsolete)Verb
(es)- to clutch power
- A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
- Is this a dagger which I see before me ? / Come, let me clutch thee.
- She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.
- Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.
Noun
(es)- the clutch of poverty
- an expiring clutch at popularity
- I must have little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.
- You scold yourself; you know it is only your nerves—and yet, and yet... In a little while it is impossible to resist the terror that seizes you, and you are helpless in the clutch of an unseen horror.
- The clutch which I had made to save myself in falling had torn away this chin-band and let the lower jaw drop on the breast; but little else was disturbed, and there was Colonel John Mohune resting as he had been laid out a century ago.
Synonyms
* clutch bag (small handbag)Adjective
(en adjective)- I start with his most obvious characteristic: he was clutch'. He is Mr. '''Clutch'''. In the last chapter I mentioned that Bernie Williams was '''clutch''', which was a valid assessment, but nobody on the Yankees was as ' clutch as Jeter was.
Etymology 2
Variant form of (cletch), from (etyl) .Noun
(es)Innovation in Government: Britain's Local Labs
- No longer would Britons routinely blame the national government when things went wrong. Instead they would demand action from a new clutch of elected mayors, police commissioners and the like.
Alternative forms
*Noun
(nb-noun-m1)- trå in clutchen - step on the clutch