Graze vs Crease - What's the difference?
graze | crease |
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
A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
(cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
(lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
(ice hockey) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal, surrounded by thin red lines and filled in with light blue.
To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
To lightly bloody; to graze.
As nouns the difference between graze and crease
is that graze is the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing while crease is a line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced or crease can be (kris).As verbs the difference between graze and crease
is that graze is to feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc) with grass; to furnish pasture for while crease is to make a crease in; to wrinkle.graze
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(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.
Derived terms
* overgrazeAnagrams
* ----crease
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- His pants had a nice sharp crease .
- His shirt was brand new with visible creases from its store fold.
See also
* (Hockey rink)Verb
(creas)- The bullet just creased his shoulder.