Fresh vs Firm - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between fresh and firm

is that fresh is newly produced or obtained or fresh can be rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward while firm is steadfast, secure, hard (in position).

As nouns the difference between fresh and firm

is that fresh is a rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood while firm is (uk|business) a business partnership; the name under which it trades.

As a verb firm is

to make firm or strong; fix securely.

fresh

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fresch, fersch, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

Newly produced or obtained.

He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.

Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.

After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.

I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.

a glass of fresh milk

(of plant material) Still green and not dried.

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

Refreshing or cool.

What a nice fresh breeze.

(of water) Without salt; not saline.

After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.

* (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49:

There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,

* 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co., page 230:

When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;

* 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995, page 1557:

Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.

Rested; not tired or fatigued.

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Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.

In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.

a fresh hand on a ship

youthful; florid

* Shakespeare

these fresh nymphs

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Antonyms

* stale

Derived terms

* afresh * fresh air * fresh as a daisy * fresh bean * fresh country eggs * fresh breeze * fresh fish * fresh food * fresh frozen plasma * fresh gale * fresh ground/fresh-ground * fresh legs * fresh-new * fresh off the boat * fresh out of * fresh start * fresh water/freshwater * freshen * fresher * freshly * freshman * freshment * freshness * hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire * refresh * refreshing

Noun

(freshes)

A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Nebraska, 1987), page 21:

They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh , and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.

A stream or spring of fresh water.

* Shakespeare

He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.

The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

Etymology 2

1848, US slang, probably from (etyl) . More at (l).

Adjective

(er)

Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

No one liked his fresh comments.

Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.

Hey, don't get fresh with me!

Derived terms

* fresher * freshness * get fresh

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firm

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, business) A business partnership; the name under which it trades.

(business, economics) A business enterprise, however organized.

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(slang) A criminal gang.

Etymology 2

(etyl) ferme, from (etyl) ferme, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

steadfast, secure, hard (in position)

* It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.

fixed (in opinion)

a firm''' believer; a '''firm''' friend; a '''firm adherent

* He was firm that selling his company would a good choice and didn't let anyone talk him out of it.

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solid, rigid (material state)

firm''' flesh; '''firm''' muscles, '''firm''' wood; '''firm land (i.e. not soft and marshy)

Derived terms

* firm up * firmish * firmly * firmness * firmware

Verb

(en verb)

To make firm or strong; fix securely.

To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.

To become firm; stabilise.

To improve after decline.

Aust. To shorten (of betting odds).

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