Finch vs Dodge - What's the difference?
finch | dodge |
Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
To hunt for finches, to go finching.
To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
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, chapter=2 (archaic) To go hither and thither.
(photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
* Coleridge
As proper nouns the difference between finch and dodge
is that finch is while dodge is derived from a (etyl) diminutive of roger (typically found in the united states).finch
English
(wikipedia finch)Noun
(es)Derived terms
* bullfinch * chaffinch * * * goldfinch * * greenfinch * hawfinch * * * * rosefinch * * *See also
* brambling * canary * crossbill * redpoll * serin * siskinVerb
(es)dodge
English
Verb
(dodg)- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
citation, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.