Feather vs Plum - What's the difference?
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A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
* 1873 , W. K. Brooks, "A Feather", Popular Science Monthly , volume IV, page 687
* 1914 , , The Beasts of Tarzan , chapter V
* 2000 , C. J. Puotinen, The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care? , page 362
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
* Shakespeare
One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as (plug and feather) or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
To cover or furnish with feathers.
* L'Estrange
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
(ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
(aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller doesn't windmill as the aircraft flies.
(carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
* Sir Walter Scott
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
* Loveday
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
* Francis Bacon
To tread, as a cock.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica , often of a dark red or purple colour.
The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica .
A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
A desirable thing.
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.
A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
(pejorative) A fool, idiot.
(slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing '' with ''Prunus domestica including, among others:
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## Prunus mume , an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums
The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits
(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
Completely; utterly.
(mining) To plumb.
As nouns the difference between feather and plum
is that feather is a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display while plum is feather.As a verb feather
is to cover or furnish with feathers.feather
English
(wikipedia feather)Alternative forms
* fetherNoun
(en noun)- Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
- Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers , adding to their wild, fierce appearance.
- Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers' to line the nest, but ' feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.
- I am not of that feather to shake off / My friend when he must need me.
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (horse hair) feathers, feathering, horsefeathersAntonyms
* (horse hair at rear of lower legs) spatsDerived terms
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(en verb)- An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.
- The stylist feathered my hair.
- After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine's propeller.
- A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines.
- The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
- They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
- (Dryden)
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Derived terms
* feathered * feather one's nest * feather one's own nest * tar and featherReferences
*Horse Glossary*
Horses Glossary*
Cowboy Dictionary] – [http://www.cowboyway.com/Dictionary/Letter-F.htm Cowboy F: Feather
Anagrams
* *plum
English
(wikipedia plum)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with German Pflaume, Dutch pruim. Compare pruneNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (tree) plum tree, plumtree * umeDerived terms
* American black plum * Assyrian plum * Australian plum * Brazilian plum * Canada plum * Darling plum * East Indian plum * Guinea plum * Indian plum * Jamaica plum * Japanese plum * Japan plum * Morocco plum * Natal plum * Orleans plum * Port Arthur plum * Queensland plum * Satsuma plum * Spanish plum * Tasmanian plum * Victoria plum * yellow Spanish plum * apple-plum * beach plum, beach-plum * black plum of Illawarra * blood plum * bullace plum * cherry plum * chickasaw plum * cocoa plum, coco plum, cocoplum * damascene plum, damask plum, damson plum * date plum, date-plum * dried plum * gingerbread plum * golden plum * gopher plum * gray plum, grey plum * ground plum * hog-plum * horse-plum * leaf curling plum aphid * marmalade plum * mirabelle plum * mountain plum * muscle plum * mussel plum * myrobalan plum, myrobella plum * olive-plum * partridge plum * pear-plum * persimmon-plum * pigeon-plum * plum blossom * plum brandy * plum curculio * plum peach * plum pox * plum pudding, plum-pudding * plum rains * plum sauce * plum tomato * plum tree * plum weevil * plum wine * plum-bird, plum bird * plum-blossom * plum-broth * plum-budder, plum budder * plum-cake * plum-color, plum-colour * plum-colored, plum-coloured * plumcot * plum-damas, plumdamas, plum-damis * plum-dough, plum-duff * plum-fir * plum-gouger, plum gouger * plum-in-the-mouth * plumless * plummy * plum-pie * plum-pockets * plum-porridge * plum-pottage * plumrock * plum-stone * pluot * sapodilla plum * sebesten plum * slugplum * sugar plum, sugar-plum, sugarplum * tamarind plum * the bloom of the plum, the blue of the plum * urucuri plum * wheat-plum * wild plum * yellow plum * yellowgage plumAdjective
(more)- She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.
See also
* briolette * damson * greengage * mirabelle * myrobalan * prune * sapote * slivovitz * sloe * umeboshi * umesu *Etymology 2
Phonetically based spelling of (plumb)Adverb
(-)- You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.