Cure vs Heel - What's the difference?
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A method, device or medication that restores good health.
* , chapter=5
, title= Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Luke xii. 32
A solution to a problem.
* Dryden
* Bishop Hurd
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
A process of solidification or gelling.
(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
* Chaucer
* Fuller
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
* (rfdate) Spelman
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
To restore to health.
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
* (William Shakespeare)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To cause to be rid of (a defect).
To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
To bring about a of any kind.
To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
To solidify or gel.
(obsolete) To become healed.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
(anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
* Denham
The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
(firearms) The back upper part of the stock.
The last or lowest part of anything; as, the heel of a mast'' or ''the heel of a vessel .
* A. Trollope
(US, Ireland) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
* Sir Walter Scott
(US) The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
* 1996 , Ester Reiter, Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan Into the Fryer (page 100)
A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
(slang, professional wrestling) A wrestler whose on-ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits. Contrast with babyface.
* 1992 , Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society (page 158)
(card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
(architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. Specifically, (US), the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
(architecture) A cyma reversa; so called by workmen.
(carpentry) the short side of an angled cut
To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
To kick with the heel.
To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
* Shakespeare
To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
In transitive terms the difference between cure and heel
is that cure is to prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use while heel is to arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.In intransitive terms the difference between cure and heel
is that cure is to solidify or gel while heel is to incline to one side, to tilt (especially of ships).As a proper noun Heel is
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English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
- Past hope! past cure !
- I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
- Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure .
- the proper cure of such prejudices
- Of study took he most cure and most heed.
- vicarages of great cure , but small value
- The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
Derived terms
* anti-cure * cure is worse than the disease * cureless * miscure * sweetcure * take the cure * water cureVerb
(cur)- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure .
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
- One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Synonyms
* (restore to good health) healDerived terms
* cure-all * incurable * miscureAnagrams
* ----heel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hele, heel, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, / His winged heels and then his armed head.
- the heel of a hunt
- the heel of the white loaf
- The bottom half, or the bun heel is placed in the carton, and the pickle slices spread evenly over the meat or cheese.
- Freedman began his analysis by noting two important facts about professional wrestling: First, that heels triumph considerably more often than do babyfaces
- (Gwilt)
Antonyms
* (angled cut in carpentry) toeDerived terms
* Achilles heel * bring someone to heel * cool one's heels * dig in one's heels * down at heel * head over heels * heelside * heel-and-toe * high heels * hot on somebody's heels * kick one's heels * kick up one's heels * kitten heel * Tar Heel * stiletto heel * spike heel * take to one's heels * turn on one's heel * well-heeledVerb
(en verb)- I cannot sing, / Nor heel the high lavolt.
Etymology 2
Alteration of earlier heeld, from (etyl) heelden, from (etyl) hyldan, ). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The ship gave a heel to port.