Grape vs Graze - What's the difference?
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(countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis .
(countable) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
(countable, uncountable) A dark purplish red colour, the colour of many grapes.
(uncountable) grapeshot.
A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1999:' Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever '''grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — ''Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
* Alexander Pope
* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
* Shakespeare
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
* 1851 ,
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
To yield grass for grazing.
* Francis Bacon
As nouns the difference between grape and graze
is that grape is a small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis while graze is the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.As an adjective grape
is containing grapes or having a grape flavor.As a verb graze is
to feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.grape
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* aril * cabernet sauvignon * Catawba * chardonnay * Chenin Blanc * currant * delaware * gamay * * gordo * Lambrusco * malvasia * merlot * muscadine * muscat * muscatel * must * noble rot * petioles * Pinot Grigio * Pinot Noir * pinotage * raisin * resveratrol * riesling * Sauvignon blanc * scuppernong * * Shiraz * Steen * stum * sultana * syrah * Tokay * wine * zinfandel * * (wikipedia "grape")Anagrams
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(graz)- a field or two to graze his cows
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
- The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing .
- when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
- the bullet grazed the wall
- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
- to graze one's knee
- The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.