Buckling vs Separate - What's the difference?
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(geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
* 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living , Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, ISBN 1-57061-377-X, page 715,
* 1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=nWCLpQFrdnMC] Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 0-8121-1478-7, page 429,
* 1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West , Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0395901316, page 161,
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Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
Not together (with); not united (to).
To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
* Dryden
* Bible, Romans viii. 35
To cause (things or people) to be separate.
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(obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
* Bible, Acts xiii. 2
(usually, in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
As nouns the difference between buckling and separate
is that buckling is red herring (smoke-cured herring) or buckling can be bow while separate is (usually|in the plural) anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.As an adjective separate is
apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).As a verb separate is
to divide (a thing) into separate parts.buckling
English
Etymology 1
From the verb .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.
- The newborn doe kids destined to become habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have a very fine haircoat.
- I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings ) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.
Usage notes
* (young male goat) Not all sources agree on the exact age range for which this term applies; for example, one source applies it to kids as young as six months.Stephen W. Barnett, “Goats”, in Stephen W. Barnett (ed.), Manual of Animal Technology ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=Jv8jIGZ2HGsC] Blackwell Publishing (2007), ISBN 0632055936, page 140: “male from 6 months to 2 years of age”.Etymology 3
cognate with (etyl) bockinc and (etyl) bocking (itself from , referencing the foul smell)See also
* stockfishReferences
separate
English
Adjective
(-)- This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
- I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
Verb
(separat)- From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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- Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.