Clothes vs Habit - What's the difference?
clothes | habit | Related terms |
(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (obsolete) .
The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
* Prior
An action done on a regular basis.
* Washington Irving
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.
(archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
(botany) form of growth or general appearance of a variety or species of plant, e.g. erect, prostrate, bushy.
An addiction.
Clothes is a related term of habit.
As nouns the difference between clothes and habit
is that clothes is (plural only) items of clothing; apparel while habit is habit.As a verb clothes
is (clothe).clothes
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(head)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
- She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
Derived terms
(terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothesSee also
* clothing * gear * threadsEtymology 2
habit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ; see have.Noun
(en noun)- a man of very shy, retired habits
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits . ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy.
- There are, among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits .
- it was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here; for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the habit of a gentleman; and so I neither had any business in the ship, or learned to do any.