Charm vs Pendant - What's the difference?
charm | pendant |
An object, act or words believed to have magic power.
The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
* Alexander Pope
* Milton
(physics) A quantum number of hadrons]] determined by the quantity of [[charm quark, charm quarks & antiquarks.
A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
* (John Milton)
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, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
* (William Shakespeare)
To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
* (Edmund Spenser)
To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
* (Alexander Pope)
The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book IV:
* Spenser
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p. 152:
A flock, group (especially of finches).
(architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
(obsolete, in the plural) Testicles.
A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
(nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
The dangling part of an earring.
(obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
* Keightley
(fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
(obsolete) A pendulum.
(US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
As nouns the difference between charm and pendant
is that charm is an object, act or words believed to have magic power or charm can be the mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children while pendant is counterpart.As a verb charm
is to seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.charm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) charme'' (chant, magic spell), from (etyl) ''carmen (song, incantation)Noun
(en noun)- a charm against evil
- It works like a charm .
- He had great personal charm .
- She tried to win him over with her charms .
- Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- the charm of beauty's powerful glance
- She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.
Synonyms
* (something with magic power ): amulet, incantation, spell, talisman * (quality of arousing delight or admiration ): appeal, attraction, charisma * (trinket ): amulet, dangle, ornamentAntonyms
* (quality of arousing delight or admiration ): boredom, drynessSee also
* quarkVerb
(en verb)- They, on their mirth and dance / Intent, with jocund music charm his ear.
- No witchcraft charm thee!
- I, in my own woe charmed , / Could not find death.
- Here we our slender pipes may safely charm .
- Music the fiercest grief can charm .
Synonyms
* (seduce, entrance or fascinate ): delight, enchant, entrance, win one over * (use magic ): bewitch, enchant, ensorcel, enspellDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
Variant of (chirm), from (etyl) chirme, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, / With charm of earliest Birds
- free liberty to chant our charms at will
- The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.
Anagrams
* English collective nouns ----pendant
English
Alternative forms
* pendaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Many have been pleased with this work and its pendant , the Tales and Popular Fictions.
- One vase is the pendant to the other vase.
- (Knight)