Flesh vs Blood - What's the difference?
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The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
*1918 , Fannie Farmer, , Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game:
*:The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
The skin of a human or animal.
(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
(archaic) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.
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*:Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit
*c.1530s , , 7, xix-xxi,
*:The flesh' that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire:and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate ' flesh .
*:Yf any soule eate of the flesh' of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole(sic). ¶ Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ad the eate of the ' flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.
The human body as a physical entity.
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*:And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh , and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter,
(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
*1769 , , 5, xvii,
*:For the flesh' lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the ' flesh : and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
*1929 January, Bassett Morgan ( ,
*:But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh .
(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
*2003 , Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest ,
*:The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.
(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
*Cowper
*:There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
*Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 27
*:He is our brother and our flesh .
A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
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To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
* 1933 , Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone (in) or (to) a given practice.
*, II.7:
To put flesh on; to fatten.
To add details.
To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
A blood test or blood sample.
The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
* 1841 , Benjamin Parsons,
* 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
* 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
(label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
* Bible, (w) xiix. 11
(label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(member of a certain gang).
To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
To let blood (from); to bleed.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
In obsolete terms the difference between flesh and blood
is that flesh is to inure or habituate someone {{term|in}} or {{term|to}} a given practice while blood is a lively, showy man; a rake.As nouns the difference between flesh and blood
is that flesh is the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat while blood is a vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.As verbs the difference between flesh and blood
is that flesh is to bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh while blood is to cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.flesh
English
(wikipedia flesh)Noun
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Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
- And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.
- The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
Derived terms
* exchange flesh * flesh and blood * flesh fly * flesh out * flesh side * flesh-wing * flesh wound * flesher * fleshing * fleshpot * fleshy * goose flesh * in the flesh * one flesh * pound of flesh * press the flesh * proud flesh * way of all fleshSee also
* carrion * incarnate * sarcoid *Anagrams
* ----blood
English
(wikipedia blood)Alternative forms
* bloud (obsolete)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- a friend of our own blood
- to share the blood of Saxon royalty
Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
- Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
- Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
- He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
- when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
- Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
- It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .