Emboss vs Adorn - What's the difference?
emboss | adorn |
To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.
To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.
* Dryden
* Sir Walter Scott
(label) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
(label) To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.
*, II.11:
*:And as it commonly happens, that when the Stag begins to be embost , and finds his strength to faile-him, having no other remedie left him, doth yeeld and bequeath himselfe unto us that pursue him, with teares suing to us for mercie.
(obsolete) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
* Milton
(label) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
* Spenser
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
* Bible, Isa. lxi. 10
* Goldsmith
(obsolete) adornment
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between emboss and adorn
is that emboss is (obsolete) to hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood while adorn is (obsolete) adornment.As verbs the difference between emboss and adorn
is that emboss is to mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol or emboss can be (label) of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest while adorn is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.As a noun adorn is
(obsolete) adornment.emboss
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) embosen, from (etyl) embocer.Verb
(es)- The papers weren't official until the seal had been embossed on them.
- Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed / Androgeo's death.
- Exhibiting flowers in their natural colour embossed upon a purple ground.
Etymology 2
Perhaps from . Compare (imbosk).Verb
(es)- in the Arabian woods embossed
- A knight her met in mighty arms embossed .
Anagrams
*adorn
English
Verb
(en verb)- a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
- a character adorned with every Christian grace
- a gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters
- as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
- At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.
Synonyms
* beautify * bedeck * decorate * deck * grace * ornament * prettify * See alsoNoun
- (Spenser)