Dimple vs Disple - What's the difference?
dimple | disple |
A small depression or indentation in a surface.
* Wordsworth
Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.
To create a dimple in.
To create a dimple in one's face by smiling.
To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
*1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
*:And bitter Penance with an yron whip, / Was wont him once to disple euery day [...].
As verbs the difference between dimple and disple
is that dimple is to create a dimple in while disple is to discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.As a noun dimple
is a small depression or indentation in a surface.dimple
English
Noun
(en noun)- The accident created a dimple in the hood of the car.
- The garden pool's dark surface breaks into dimples small and bright.
- You have very cute dimples .
Synonyms
* (depression in a surface ): dentVerb
(dimpl)- The hailstorm dimpled the roof of our car.
- The young girl dimpled in glee as she was handed a cupcake.
- And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.