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Drool vs Wool - What's the difference?

drool | wool |

As a verb drool

is to secrete saliva in anticipation of food.

As a noun drool

is saliva trickling from the mouth.

As a proper noun wool is

a village in dorset, england.

drool

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to secrete saliva in anticipation of food
  • to secrete saliva upon seeing something nice
    • That boy is so attractive I drool whenever I see him
  • to talk nonsense

    • Synonyms

    * (emit saliva ): slaver, slobber, drivel

    Noun

    (-)
  • saliva trickling from the mouth

    • Derived terms

    * drooly

    Anagrams

    *

    wool

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
  • * 2006 , Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece , page 692
    • The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
  • A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 12, Mireya Navarro, It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?, New York Times, url=
    • , passage=Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets. }}
  • Anything with a texture like that of wool.
  • * 1975 , Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet , page 223
    • The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation
  • A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
  • (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  • * Shakespeare
    • wool of bat and tongue of dog
  • (British, NZ) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)

    • Coordinate terms

    * (hair of sheep) goathair, horsehair, qiviut

    Hyponyms

    * (cloth or yarn) felt, tweed, worsted

    Derived terms

    * andalusian wool * breech wool * burry wool * cotton wool * dead pulled wool * dyed in the wool * fleece wool * glass wool * ice wool * mineral wool * much cry and little wool * pull the wool over somebody's eyes * rag wool * scoured wool * seed wool * Shetland wool * shorn wool * steel wool * thibet wool * virgin wool * warm as wool * waste of wool * wire wool * wool grease * wool oil * woolgathering * woollen, woolly * woolly, wooly

    See also

    * (wikipedia "wool")