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Fringed vs Digitated - What's the difference?

fringed | digitated |

As adjectives the difference between fringed and digitated

is that fringed is possessing a fringe while digitated is (botany) having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole also, in general, characterized by digitation.

As a verb fringed

is (fringe).

fringed

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Possessing a fringe.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (fringe)

    • fringe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A decorative border.
    • the fringe of a picture
  • A marginal or peripheral part.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Jeremy Taylor)
    • the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.}}
  • Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
  • The periphery of a town or city.
    • He lives in the fringe of London.
  • That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.
    • Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
  • * 1915 , ":
    • In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe .
  • * 1981 , , HERmione , page 155,
    • Fayne in the photograph had a fringe , hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.
  • * 2007 , , Sophie's Dilemma , page 16,
    • Ingeborg knew she wasn?t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she?d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn?t either.
    “No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
  • * 2009 , Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion , page 231,
    • Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
  • (label) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
    • interference fringe
  • Non-mainstream theatre.
    • The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe'''''; ''Adelaide '''Fringe
  • (label) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.

    • Synonyms

    * (hair in front) forelock, bangs (US) *

    Derived terms

    * fringe benefit * fringy * lunatic fringe

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Outside the mainstream.

    • Synonyms

    * nonmainstream

    Verb

    (fring)
  • To decorate with fringe.
  • To serve as a fringe.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
    • Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.

    Anagrams

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    digitated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Charles Darwin, title=A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=In Search of the Unknown, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The other pair of limbs terminate in something that, from the single instance I experienced, seemed to resemble soft but firm antennae or, perhaps, digitated palpi--" "Feelers!" }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=William Thomas Fernie, title=Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=From the large digitated leaves an extract is made which has proved of service in whooping-cough, and of which from one-third to half a teaspoonful may be given for a dose. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Thomas Gwyn Elger, title=The Moon, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Its massive central mountain, surmounted by many peaks, occupies a considerable area on the floor, and exhibits a digitated outline at the base. }} *