Fruit vs God - What's the difference?
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(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
* Macaulay
Offspring from a sexual union.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
A deity.
# A supernatural, typically immortal being with superior powers.
# A male deity.
#* 2002 , Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby :
# A supreme being; God.
An idol.
# A representation of a deity, especially a statue or statuette.
# Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed.
#* Bible, Phil. iii. 19
(metaphor) A person in a high position of authority; a powerful ruler or tyrant.
An exceedingly handsome man.
* Wilfred Owen, Disabled (poem)
(Internet) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.
* 1996 , Andy Eddy, Internet after hours
* 2003 , David Lojek, Emote to the Max (page 11)
* 1530 , , An aun?were vnto Syr Thomas Mores Dialogue'' in ''The whole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy Martyrs, and principall teachers of this Churche of England, collected and compiled in one Tome togither, beyng before ?cattered, & now in Print here exhibited to the Church (1573),
* 1900 , , "The Happy Man" in The Wild Knight and Other Poems :
To idolize.
* {{quote-book, 1608, (William Shakespeare), , section=Act V Scene III,
, passage=CORIOLANUS: This last old man, / Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome, / Loved me above the measure of a father; / Nay, godded me, indeed.}}
* a . 1866 , (Edward Bulwer Lytton), "Death and Sisyphus".
* 2001 , Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game , page 78
to deify
* 1595 , (Edmund Spenser), Colin Clouts Come Home Againe .
* 1951 , (Eric Voegelin), Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (1987), page 125
* 1956 , , Fritz Eichenberg, , page 241
As verbs the difference between fruit and god
is that fruit is to produce fruit while god is .As a noun fruit
is (botany) the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.fruit
English
(wikipedia fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown
Usage notes
* In the botanical and figurative senses, is usually treated as uncountable: *: a bowl of fruit'''''; ''eat plenty of '''fruit'''''; ''the tree provides '''fruit . * is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense: *: berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits'''''; ''the '''fruits of this plant split into two parts. * When is often used as a singulative. * In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits. * The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables.Derived terms
* bear fruit * fruitcake * fruit cocktail * fruit of one's loins * * fruit of the union * fruitage * fruitarian * fruitful * fruitless * fruit salad * fruit tree * fruity * grapefruit * jackfruit * passion fruit * Sharon fruit * star fruit, starfruit * stone fruitSee also
* for a list of fruitsExternal links
* (Fruit) * (List of fruits) 1000 English basic words ----god
English
Noun
(wikipedia god) (en noun)- When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
- The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.
- whose god is their belly
- Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods .
- Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.
- The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.
- The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods .
Usage notes
The word god is often applied both to males and to females. The word was originally neuter in Proto-Germanic; monotheistic – notably Judeo-Christian – usage completely shifted the gender to masculine, necessitating the development of a feminine form, goddess.Synonyms
* (supernatural being with superior powers) deity, See alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from "god") * demigod * God * god-awful * god-child, godchild * goddam, goddamn * goddaughter * Goddess * goddess * godded * godding * godfather * god-fearing * god forbid * god-forsaken, godforsaken * God-given * godhead * godhood * god-king, god king * godless * godlike * godliness * godling * godly * godmother * God of the gaps * godparent * godsend * godship * godson * Godspeed * godward * household god * ungodlyProper noun
(en-proper-noun)page 271/2:
- Golgotha's ghastly trinity—
- Three persons and one god .
Verb
(godd)- To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.
- "Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?
- Then got he bow and fhafts of gold and lead, / In which fo fell and puiflant he grew, / That Jove himfelfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.
- The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
- "She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.