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Droop vs Groop - What's the difference?

droop | groop |

As verbs the difference between droop and groop

is that droop is (lb) to sink or hang downward; to sag while groop is (obsolete) to make a channel or groove; to form grooves or groop can be .

As nouns the difference between droop and groop

is that droop is something which is limp or sagging; while groop is a trench or small ditch or groop can be .

droop

English

(wikipedia droop)

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To sink or hang downward; to sag.
  • *
    • Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
  • * (Sylvester Stallone) (1946-)
    • I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop , the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
  • (lb) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
  • (lb) To lose all enthusiasm or happiness.
  • * (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
    • I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
    • I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
  • (lb) To allow to droop or sink.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • Like to a withered vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
  • To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
  • * (1809-1892)
    • when day drooped

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • something which is limp or sagging;
  • a condition or posture of drooping
    • He walked with a discouraged droop .

    Related terms

    * drooped * drooping * droopy

    Derived terms

    * brewer's droop ----

    groop

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) grope, grupe, groupe, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trench or small ditch.
  • A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1816 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=James Cleland , title=Annals of Glasgow , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=373 , passage=The groop is one foot six inches wide, six and one-half inches deep at one end … to carry off the urine into a reservoir under the Cowhouse, … }}
  • *2008 , Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones :
    • Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop , sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.
  • A pen for cattle; a byre.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of group. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1828 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=William Taylor , title=Historic Survey of German Poetry , chapter= citation , genre=Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter , publisher= , isbn= , page=179 , passage=Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ... }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1834 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Charles Augustus Davis , title=Letters of J. Downing, Major , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Harper & Brothers , isbn= , page=158 , passage=… and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there; }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1985 , year_published=2010 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz , title=Design Theory , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=Bibliographisches Institut , isbn=9783411016754 , page=560 , passage=Delete one point x'' and consider as new groops the point sets ''B\{x}'' where ''B'' is any block of D containing ''x . }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization , title=Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73 , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=University of Waterloo , isbn= , page=90 , passage=A groop''' divisible design'' on ''v'' points with '''groop''' size ''g'' and block size ''k'' is called a ''t-GD[k,g,;v]'' if every subset of ''t'' distinct points that contains no two points from the same ' groop is contained in exactly one block. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1810 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor=Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson , author= , title=The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=485 , passage=I GROOPED in thy pocket pretty peate. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1829 , year_published=2010 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author= , title=The Battle of Navarino: Or the Renegade , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=40 , passage=Grooped around the fires on which they were preparing their provisions, … }}

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