Delf vs Deaf - What's the difference?
delf | deaf |
Diplôme d'étude de langue française, a French-language qualification.
Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
* Shakespeare
Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
* Dryden
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
* Holland
Deaf people considered as a group.
As a noun delf
is a mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.As an adjective deaf is
of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages.delf
English
Acronym
(Acronym) (head)Anagrams
* ----deaf
English
Adjective
(er)- Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf .
- Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
- Those people are deaf to reason.
- O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf , but not to flattery!
- A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
- a deaf''' nut; '''deaf corn
- (Halliwell)
- If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf , void, light, and naught.