Curry vs Football - What's the difference?
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One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
Curry powder
To cook or season with curry powder.
(label) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
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, title= (label) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
(label) To beat, thrash; to drub.
* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by , part 1,
(label) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
(computing) To perform currying upon.
(obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily.
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(obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
* 1608 , George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron 2.245
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
(obsolete) To hurry.
* 1676 , Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke 34
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(general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
(other than North America, uncountable) association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada and the United States.
(US, uncountable) American football: a game in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
(Canada, uncountable) Canadian football: a game played on a wide field in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
(Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable) Australian rules football.
(Ireland, uncountable) Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
(Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) rugby league.
(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) rugby union
(countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
(uncountable) Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
(figuratively, countable) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
(slang, countable) The nickname of the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.
As a proper noun curry
is a family name of irish origin, from.As a noun football is
the kind of ball used in american football.curry
English
(wikipedia curry)Etymology 1
1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English(Hannah Glasse), Glasse’s , 1747), from (etyl) . Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook (Forme of Cury) (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of (Richard II of England).Noun
(curries)Synonyms
* (dish) Ruby Murray (rhyming slang) * (curry powder) curry powderDerived terms
* curry leaf * curry paste * curry powder * currywurst * give someone currySee also
* piccalilli (Related Indian dishes) * balti * bhaji * bhuna * biryani * chilli * chutney * dhansak * dopiaza * garam masala * herb * jalfresi * karahi * korma * madras * makhani, makhonee * moghlai * naan * pakora * papadum, poppadum * paratha * pasanda * phall * roghan josh * samosa * spice * tandoor * tandoori * tikka masala * vindalooVerb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) currayen, from (etyl) correer 'to prepare', presumably from Vulgar (etyl) conredare, from com- (a form of con- 'together') + some Germanic base verbVerb
- Your short horse is soon curried .
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- I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely.
- By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.
Usage notes
The sense "To win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases "to curry favour (with)" and "to curry [someone's] favour",Derived terms
* curry favorEtymology 3
From , a computer scientistVerb
Etymology 4
Possibly derived from currier , a common 16-18th century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.Verb
- I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.
- All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.
- A sermon is soon curryed over.
References
football
English
Noun
- Roman and medieval football''' matches were more violent than any modern type of '''football .
- Each team scored three goals when they played football .
- Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football .
- They played football in the snow.
- ''The player kicked the football .
- That budget item became a political football .
Synonyms
* ("football" in Britain) ** (all varieties of English) association football, soccer (all varieties of English), wogball (Australian racist slang) ** (British slang) footie, footer * ("football" in the US) American football, (Australia) gridiron, gridiron football * ("football" in Canada) (outside Canada) Canadian football * footy, Aussie Rules, VFL (outdated), AFL * ("football" in New South Wales and Queensland) footy, league * soccer * (ball) ** (in all varieties of English and in all games called "football") ball ** footy, pill ** soccerball ** soccer ball ** pigskinDerived terms
* American football * arena football * Australian rules football * Barbarian football * blow football * Canadian flag football * Canadian football * Gaelic football * five-a-side football * flag football * football hooligan * football match * football player * football tennis * footballer * footballing * gridiron football * political football * roller football * table football * touch football * tackle footballSee also
* for a list of terms used in football/soccer. * (Football) * Details of the word football in various parts of the world. * (American football) *Translations of football (soccer) terms1000 English basic words ----
