Gram vs Grass - What's the difference?
gram | grass |
A group of leguminous plants that are grown for their seeds. pulses.
(uncountable) The seeds of these plants.
(obsolete) angry
* Havelok the Dane
(US)
(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
*
, title= (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring.
* Latham
(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
* Bible Is. xl. 7
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
* 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
To cover with grass or with turf.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
In uncountable terms the difference between gram and grass
is that gram is the seeds of these plants while grass is a lawn.As nouns the difference between gram and grass
is that gram is a unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g while grass is any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.As proper nouns the difference between gram and grass
is that gram is {{surname} while Grass is {{surname|lang=en}.As an adjective gram
is angry.As a verb grass is
to lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).gram
English
Alternative forms
* grammeEtymology 1
From (etyl) gramme, from (etyl) .See also
* kilogram * milligram *Etymology 2
From (etyl) . From (etyl) .Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary. 1976. pp. 566Noun
(-)Anagrams
*Etymology 3
Diminutive of grandmotherEtymology 4
(etyl), akin to grim.Adjective
(en adjective)- For he knew, the swike dam, / Euerildel God was him gram .
Etymology 5
Noun
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External links
* (gram) * ----grass
English
(wikipedia grass)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- two years old next grass
- Surely the people is grass .
Synonyms
* ''Gramineae (alternative name)Derived terms
* grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrassSee also
* (Poaceae) *Verb
(es)- He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
- to grass a fish