Cough vs Coffin - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between cough and coffin

is that cough is to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion while coffin is to place in a coffin.

As nouns the difference between cough and coffin

is that cough is a sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary while coffin is an oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.

cough

English

Verb

(en verb)

To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

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To make a noise like a cough.

Derived terms

* cougher * cough up

Noun

(en noun)

A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough .

A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough .

He was – cough – indisposed.

Hyponyms

* barking cough * churchyard cough * congested cough * dry cough * hacking cough * loose cough * non-productive cough * productive cough * smoker's cough * wet cough

Derived terms

* cough mixture * cough syrup * whooping cough

coffin

English

(wikipedia coffin)

Alternative forms

* cophin (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)

An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.

(obsolete) A basket.

* Wycliffe's Bible

And all ate, and were filled. And they took the reliefs of broken gobbets, twelve coffins full (Matthew 14:20).

A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

* Shakespeare

Of the paste a coffin I will rear.

(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

(Nares)

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

(Webster 1913)

Usage notes

The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.

Synonyms

* casket (US)

Derived terms

* coffin bone * coffinlike * coffin nail * coffin ride * coffin ship * encoffin * encoffiner * encoffinment

Verb

(en verb)

To place in a coffin.

* 2007 , (Barbara Everett), "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books , 29:6, p. 21:

The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.

Synonyms

* encoffin