Haggard vs Fatigue - What's the difference?
haggard | fatigue |
Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
* Dryden
Wild or untamed
(dialect, Isle of Mann, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
(falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
* 1599 ,
*:No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
*:I know her spirits are as coy and wild
*:As haggards of the rock.
(falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A hag.
A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
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A menial task, especially in the military.
(engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.
* 2013 , N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials , page 399
to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
(intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
As nouns the difference between haggard and fatigue
is that haggard is a stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc while fatigue is a weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.As an adjective haggard
is looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.As a verb fatigue is
to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.haggard
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
- Pale and haggard faces.
- A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
- The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard .
- a haggard or refractory hawk
Derived terms
* haggardly * haggardnessNoun
(en noun)- "He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard" [http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm]
- A "haggard" is a bird captured as an adult and therefore of unknown age; often, the law prohibits capturing birds of mating age.
Falconry Pro
- I have loved this proud disdainful haggard .
- (Garth)
References
fatigue
English
Noun
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- Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.