Egret vs Regress - What's the difference?
egret | regress |
Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta'' or ''Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season.
A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.
(botany) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle.
(obsolete) The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis )
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
* Frederic Harrison
The power or liberty of passing back.
* Shakespeare
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
(statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
As nouns the difference between egret and regress
is that egret is any of various wading birds of the genera egretta'' or ''ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season while regress is the act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.As a verb regress is
to move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.egret
English
(wikipedia egret)Noun
(en noun)See also
* heronAnagrams
*regress
English
Noun
(-)- Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
- Thou shalt have egress and regress;
Derived terms
* infinite regressVerb
(es)- When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.