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Deaf vs Dum - What's the difference?

deaf | dum |

As adjectives the difference between deaf and dum

is that deaf is of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages while dum is cooked with steam.

As an interjection dum is

.

deaf

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf .
  • * Dryden
    • Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
  • Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
    • Those people are deaf to reason.
  • * Shakespeare
    • O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf , but not to flattery!
  • Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
  • * Dryden
    • A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
    • a deaf''' nut; '''deaf corn
    (Halliwell)
  • * Holland
    • If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf , void, light, and naught.

    Synonyms

    * hard of hearing * hearing-impaired

    Derived terms

    * turn a deaf ear * stone deaf * fall on deaf ears

    See also

    * inaudible (unable to be heard ) * anosmic * blind

    Noun

  • Deaf people considered as a group.

    • Derived terms

    * deaf aid * deaf and dumb * deaf-mute * deafen * deafness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To deafen.
    • (Dryden)

    See also

    * (pedia) * (Deaf culture)

    Anagrams

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    dum

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • cooked with steam

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • * 2012 , Graeme Burk, Robert Smith, Who is the Doctor
    • I like to hang out with friends and travel the world. But if there's one thing I really love, it's Doctor Who''. ''Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum. Whooo-eee-oooo dum de dum, de dum de dum.
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