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Garb vs Seize - What's the difference?

garb | seize |

In lang=en terms the difference between garb and seize

is that garb is to dress in garb while seize is to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up .

As verbs the difference between garb and seize

is that garb is to dress in garb while seize is to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.

As a noun garb

is fashion, style of dressing oneself up or garb can be (heraldiccharge) a wheat sheaf.

garb

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • A type of dress or clothing.
  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
  • (lb) A guise, external appearance.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb , he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dress in garb.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) gerbe; akin to German Garbe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.
  • A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
  • * 1957 , H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , page 118.
  • Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.''

    Anagrams

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    seize

    English

    Verb

    (seiz)
  • to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture
  • to take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance)
  • to take possession of (by force, law etc.)
  • to seize smuggled goods
    to seize a ship after libeling
  • to have a sudden and powerful effect upon
  • a panic seized the crowd
    a fever seized him
  • (nautical) to bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line
  • to seize two fish-hooks back to back
    to seize or stop one rope on to another
  • (obsolete) to fasten, fix
  • to lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon)
  • to seize on the neck of a horse
    The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year.'' (''Southey , Bunyan, p. 21)
  • to have a seizure
  • * 2012 , Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician
  • Nearing what she thought was a climax, he started seizing and fell off her. Later, realizing he was dead, she became alarmed and dragged the body to his vehicle to make it look like he had died in his truck.
  • to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up
  • Rust caused the engine to seize , never to run again.
  • (UK) to submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
  • Derived terms

    * be seized of, be seized with * seizable * seize the day * seize on, seize upon * seize up * seizer * seizor