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Cleg vs Clef - What's the difference?

cleg | clef |

As nouns the difference between cleg and clef

is that cleg is a light breeze while clef is a symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches indicated by the lines on the staff.

cleg

English

Alternative forms

* gleg

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light breeze.
  • A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
  • * 1657 , , Diary , I,
  • Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg , and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum .
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 39,
  • Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs' and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the ' glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.
  • * 1998 , V. K. Riabitsev, Once Season in the Taiga , page 138,
  • The clegs' continue to swarm all around. I wonder how many there are.Remaining seated on the block, I seize ' clegs out of the surrounding air at random, and with scissors cut out a tiny triangle from the rear edge of each one's right wing before releasing it.
  • * 2007 , John T. Wright, An Evacuee's Story: A North Yorkshire Family in Wartime , page 361,
  • Cattle were grazing languidly on the lush grass and flicking their tails to keep away the clegs that constantly plagued them and, having recently suffered a nasty bite from one, I was wary of them myself.
  • * 2011 , Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath , page 49,
  • Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for.

    Synonyms

    * (blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae) blind-fly (Central Africa), deer fly (genus Chrysops), gadfly, horsefly, tabanid

    Anagrams

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    clef

    English

    (wikipedia clef)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches indicated by the lines on the staff
  • Derived terms

    * alto clef * bass clef * C clef * F clef * G clef * tenor clef * treble clef