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Fodder vs Signpost - What's the difference?

fodder | signpost |

In context|[[cryptic crossword]]s|lang=en terms the difference between fodder and signpost

is that fodder is (cryptic crosswords) the text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc) within a clue while signpost is (cryptic crosswords) a word or phrase within a clue that serves as an indicator, rather than being fodder.

As nouns the difference between fodder and signpost

is that fodder is food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc while signpost is a post bearing a sign that gives information on directions.

As verbs the difference between fodder and signpost

is that fodder is (dialect) to feed animals (with fodder) while signpost is to install signposts on.

fodder

English

Noun

  • Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
  • * 1598? , William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona ,Act I, scene I:
    • The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.
  • A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fother.
  • * 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168:
    • Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.
  • (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
  • (figurative) Something which serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
  • * '>citation
    • According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.
  • (cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
  • * 2009 , "Colin Blackburn", another 1-off cryptic clue.'' (on newsgroup ''rec.puzzles.crosswords )
    • In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was(SIC) as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.
  • * 2012 , David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words
    • Insane Roman! (4)'' Look in ''-sane Roman'' and you'll uncover NERO, the ''insane Roman''. Dovetailing the signpost — ''in'' — with the hidden fodder — ''sane Roman — is inspired, an embedded style of signposting.

    Synonyms

    * (animal food) provender

    Derived terms

    * cannon fodder * fodder radish

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).

    • Anagrams

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    signpost

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sign-post

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a post bearing a sign that gives information on directions
  • (cryptic crosswords) A word or phrase within a clue that serves as an indicator, rather than being fodder.
  • * 2012 , David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words
    • In the first example — Dance revolutionised Burma'' — you know the middle word is the signpost as ''revolutionised is too long to be the fodder (or letters to scramble). And bang, out jumps RUMBA.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To install signposts on.
    • The route wasn't signposted , and we got lost on the way.
  • To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc.
  • * 2008 , Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, Valuing and Supporting Carers (volume 1, page 31)
    • We believe that some Carers' Centres already offer an effective 'first stop shop' for signposting carers to local organisations, services and benefits, and for providing ongoing support as carers' circumstances change.
  • To indicate logical progress of a discourse using words or phrases such as now, right, to recap, to sum up, as I was saying, etc.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2013-08-08 , author = Charlotte Mulcare , title = The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages , site = plus.maths.org , url = http://plus.maths.org/content/lost-mathematicians-numbers-not-so-dark-early-middle-ages , accessdate = 2013-09-08 }}
    Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core hypotheses with phrases such as 'now to gut the bowels of this question!'

    See also

    * fingerpost * guidepost * waymark

    Anagrams

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