Cry vs Weed - What's the difference?

cry | weed |

As nouns the difference between cry and weed

is that cry is a shedding of tears; the act of crying while weed is pasture or weed can be willow.

As a verb cry

is to shed tears; to weep.

cry

English

Verb

(en-verb)

To shed tears; to weep.

That sad movie always makes me cry .

To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.

* Shakespeare

All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I'll speak.

* Bunyan

The man ran on, crying , Life! life! Eternal life!

(ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.

* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 46

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.

To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.

* Bible, Psalms cxlvii. 9

the young ravens which cry

* Shakespeare

In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry .

To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

to cry oneself to sleep

To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.

to cry goods

* Crashaw

Love is lost, and thus she cries him.

Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

* Judd

I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.

Synonyms

* weep * See also * See also

Antonyms

* laugh

Derived terms

* crybaby * cry in one's beer * cry like a baby * cry one's eyes out * cry off * cry out * cry someone a river * cry the blues * cry wolf * don't cry over spilt milk * kiss and cry

Noun

(cries)

A shedding of tears; the act of crying.

After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry .

A shout or scream.

I heard a cry from afar.

Words shouted or screamed.

a battle cry

(collectively) A group of hounds.

* Shakespeare

A cry more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.

(Milton)

(obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.

* Shakespeare

Would not this get me a fellowship in a cry of players?

(ambitransitive, of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.

"Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.

A desperate or urgent request.

(obsolete) Common report; gossip.

* Shakespeare

The cry goes that you shall marry her.

Derived terms

* battle cry * hue and cry * war cry

References

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Anagrams

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weed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A plant.

# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

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# (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.

# Short for duckweed.

# Underbrush; low shrubs.

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

one rushing forth out of the thickest weed

#* (1809-1892)

A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

# Marijuana.

# Tobacco.

# A cigar.

A horse unfit to breed from.

A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweed

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

I weeded my flower bed.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

* 1599 ,

DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;

And then to Leonato's we will go.

CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

He wore a weed on his hat.

(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel

* Milton

In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Etymology 4

From the verb wee.

Verb

(head)

(wee)

References

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