Gird vs Cling - What's the difference?
gird | cling |
To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
To prepare oneself for an action.
A sarcastic remark.
* Shakespeare
A stroke with a rod or switch.
A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
* Tillotson
To jeer at.
* Shakespeare
To jeer.
* Shakespeare
Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
* 1908 , , Hostages to Momus :
adherence; attachment; devotion
* Milton
(senseid)To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
* Mrs. Hemans
To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.
To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to dry up or wither.
* Shakespeare
(figurative, with preposition to) to be fond of, to feel strongly about
English irregular verbs
In transitive terms the difference between gird and cling
is that gird is to jeer at while cling is to cause to dry up or wither.gird
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
- The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
- Our home is girt by sea... -
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- I thank thee for that gird , good Tranio.
- Conscience is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
Verb
(en verb)- Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
- Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.
cling
English
Noun
(en noun)- Antelope steaks and fried liver to begin on, and venison cutlets with chili con carne and pineapple fritters, and then some sardines and mixed pickles; and top it off with a can of yellow clings and a bottle of beer.
- A more tenacious cling to worldly respects.
Verb
- Seaweed clung to the anchor.
- And what hath life for thee / That thou shouldst cling to it thus?
- I clung legs as close to his side as I could.
- If thou speak'st false, / Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, / Till famine cling thee.
