Claw vs D - What's the difference?
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D has no English definition.
A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
A foot equipped with such.
The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
(botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
(juggling, uncountable) The act of catching a ball overhand.
To scratch or to tear at.
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To use the claws to seize, to grip.
To use the claws to climb.
(juggling) To perform a catch.
To move with one's fingertips.
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, date=October 15
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, work=BBC Sport
(obsolete) To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court someone.
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(obsolete) To rail at; to scold.
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The fourth letter of the .
D or notch.
cardinal number five hundred (500).
the (path-independent, ) differential of a quantity
voiced alveolar plosive
Image:Latin D.png, Capital and lowercase versions of D , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter D.png, Uppercase and lowercase D in Fraktur
Image:Uncial d.png, Approximate form of upper case letter D in uncial script that was the source for lower case d
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D is likely misspelled.
D has no English definition.
As a noun claw
is a curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.As a verb claw
is to scratch or to tear at.claw
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) clawe, from (etyl) clawu, from (etyl) . Compare West Frisian klau, Dutch klauw, German Klaue, Danish klo.Noun
(en noun)- (Gray)
Derived terms
* claw hammer * get one's claws intoExternal links
* (wikipedia "claw")Etymology 2
From (etyl) clawian, from clawu.Verb
(en verb)- Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
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- I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.
- Rich men they claw , soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise.
- In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth' the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he ' claweth them soon after in another acceptation.
