Garlic vs Ail - What's the difference?
garlic | ail |
A plant, Allium sativum , related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
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, title=Athletics and Herbal Supplements
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(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
* Bible, Genesis xxi. 17
* 2011 , "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist :
To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
* Richardson
As nouns the difference between garlic and ail
is that garlic is a plant, allium sativum , related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking while ail is .garlic
English
(Allium sativum)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
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Derived terms
* bear's garlic * black garlic * broadleaf garlic, broad-leaved garlic * Canadian garlic * clove of garlic, garlic clove * crow garlic * daffodil garlic * elephant garlic * false garlic * field garlic * garlic bread * garlic chive * garlicky * garlic crusher * garlic-germander * garlic mustard * garlic-pear, garlic-peartree * garlic press * garlic root * garlic-sage * garlic salt * garlic sausage * garlic toad * garlic treaclewort * garlic-tree * garlic-wort * golden garlic * hedge garlic * hog's garlic * meadow garlic * Naples garlic * Neapolitan garlic * Oriental garlic * peelgarlic, pilgarlick * pilled-garlic * stag's garlic * white garlic * wild garlic * wood garlicSee also
* alliaceous * ramp, ramsonExternal links
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
- What aileth thee, Hagar?
- Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?
- When he ails ever so little he is so peevish.