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Feather vs Plum - What's the difference?

feather | plum |

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

Alternative forms

* fether

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
  • Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
  • * 1914 , , The Beasts of Tarzan , chapter V
  • 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.
  • * 2000 , C. J. Puotinen, The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care? , page 362
  • Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers' to line the nest, but ' feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.
  • 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
  • I am not of that feather to shake off / My friend when he must need me.
  • 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.
  • (Knight)
  • The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
  • Synonyms

    * (horse hair) feathers, feathering, horsefeathers

    Antonyms

    * (horse hair at rear of lower legs) spats

    Derived terms

    {{der3, afterfeather , birds of a feather , contour feather , featherback , featherbed , featherbedding , featherbrain , feather-brained , featherdown , feather duster , featherhead , featherily , featheriness , feathering float , feathering screw , feathering strip , feathering wheel , feather in one's cap , feather in one's hat , featherless , featherlight , featherlike , feather pen , feathertail , featherweight , featherwood , feather wool , featherwork , feathery , fine feathers make fine birds , flight feather , horsefeathers , light as a feather}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or furnish with feathers.
  • * L'Estrange
  • An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.
  • To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
  • The stylist feathered my hair.
  • (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.
  • After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine's propeller.
  • (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
  • A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines.
  • To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
  • * Loveday
  • The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
  • To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
    (Dryden)
  • To tread, as a cock.
  • (Dryden)

    Derived terms

    * feathered * feather one's nest * feather one's own nest * tar and feather

    References

    * Horse Glossary * Horses Glossary * Cowboy Dictionary] – [http://www.cowboyway.com/Dictionary/Letter-F.htm Cowboy F: Feather

    Anagrams

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    plum

    English

    (wikipedia plum)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Cognate with German Pflaume, Dutch pruim. Compare prune

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • Synonyms
    * (tree) plum tree, plumtree * ume
    Derived 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 plum

    Adjective

    (more)
  • (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  • (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
  • 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)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Plumb
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • Completely; utterly.
  • You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.

    Verb

    (plumm)
  • (mining) To plumb.