Fist vs Weed - What's the difference?
fist | weed |
hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward
(printing) the pointing hand symbol
(ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code
(slang) a person's characteristic handwriting
A group of men.
The talons of a bird of prey.
* Spenser
(informal) An attempt at something.
* 2005 , Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect (page 144)
To strike with the fist.
To close (the hand) into a fist.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 29:
To grip with a fist.
* 1851 ,
(slang) To fist-fuck.
A plant.
# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
#*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= # (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
# Short for duckweed.
# Underbrush; low shrubs.
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (1809-1892)
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
# Marijuana.
# Tobacco.
# A cigar.
A horse unfit to breed from.
A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
* 1599 ,
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel
* Milton
(wee)
As an initialism fist
is future infantry soldier technology.As a noun weed is
pasture or weed can be willow.fist
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fisten, fiesten, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fist, from (etyl) 'five'. More at five.Noun
(en noun)- The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
- More light than culver in the falcon's fist .
- With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
Synonyms
* bunch of fives * fist-size * ductusDerived terms
* fisty * iron fist * hand over fist * fistful * rule with an iron fistVerb
(en verb)- ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball.'' Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." ''The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.
- He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
- I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
See also
* knuckle * punchAnagrams
* *weed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
- one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
- A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweedSee also
* grow like a weed * weedsEtymology 2
From (etyl) .See also
* weed outEtymology 3
From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.Noun
(en noun)- DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
- And then to Leonato's we will go.
- CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,
- Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
- These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.
- He wore a weed on his hat.
- In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.