Decoction vs Sap - What's the difference?
decoction | sap |
An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
* 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford
* 1994 , Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies
(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
(slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
(rfimage)
(slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
* (rfdate)
(military) To pierce with saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
* 1850 ,
To gradually weaken.
* to sap one’s conscience
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
* (rfdate)
As nouns the difference between decoction and sap
is that decoction is decoction while sap is wax.decoction
English
(wikipedia decoction)Noun
(en noun)- Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?
- Witches and devils no longer threaten you and me. We don’t mind living next door to the harmless lady with her herb garden and decoction still, her black cat and red hair.
sap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.Noun
(wikipedia sap)Derived terms
(terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tubeEtymology 2
Probably from sapling.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(sapp)Etymology 3
From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* sap fagot * sap roller * sapperVerb
(sapp)- Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
- Ring out the grief that saps the mind
- Both assaults carried on by sapping .