Frail vs Archaic - What's the difference?
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Easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
The quantity of raisins contained in a frail.
A rush for weaving baskets.
(dated, slang) A girl.
* 1931 , (Cab Calloway) / (Irving Mills), ‘Minnie the Moocher’:
* 1933 , , , edition 1, Book 2, Chapter XXII:
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 148:
* 1941 , Preston Sturges, '', published in ''Five Screenplays , ISBN 0-520-05442-4, page 77:
To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
(archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘
* 1958 , Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology , University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
(paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens .
* 2009 , The Human Lineage , page 432:
Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
* 1848 , , The Biglow Papers :
* 1887 , , Historia Numorum A Manual Of Greek Numismatics :
* 1898 , , The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast :
(of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
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Belonging to the archaic period
Frail is a related term of archaic.
As adjectives the difference between frail and archaic
is that frail is easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm while archaic is of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.As nouns the difference between frail and archaic
is that frail is a basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins while archaic is (archaeology|us|usually capitalized) a general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘[http://enwikipediaorg/wiki/paleo-indian paleo-indian]’, ‘paleo-american’, ‘american‐paleolithic’, &c ) of human presence in the western hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘woodland’, etc).As a verb frail
is to play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.frail
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(en noun)- She was the roughest, toughest frail , but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
- There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: “Si ... Si ... Si,” a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans.
- ‘She's pickin' 'em tonight, right on the nose,’ he said. ‘That tall black-headed frail .’
- Sullivan, the girl and the butler get to the ground. The girl wears a turtle-neck sweater, a cap slightly sideways, a torn coat, turned-up pants and sneakers.
- SULLIVAN Why don't you go back with the car... You look about as much like a boy as .
- THE GIRL All right, they'll think I'm your frail .
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(en noun)Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American?paleolithic’, &c .) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
- [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
- [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
Adjective
(en adjective)- A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic , the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the Old Country.
- There is in the best archaic coin work [of the Greeks] ... a strength and a delicacy which are often wanting in the fully developed art of a later age.
- Brann's compass of words, idioms and phrases harks back to the archaic and reaches forward to the futuristic.''
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