Hay vs Grass - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
* Camden
* C. L. Flint
(countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
(slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
* 1947 , William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
(obsolete) A hedge.
(obsolete) A circular country dance.
To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
To lay snares for rabbits.
(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.
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, 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 hay and grass
is that hay is grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder while grass is a lawn.In countable terms the difference between hay and grass
is that hay is any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder while grass is various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.As a proper noun Grass is
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English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
- Make hay while the sun shines.
- Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
- I would like some of that hay . Enclose $20.
- (Rowe)
- to dance the hay
Derived terms
* hay fever * hayloft, hay loft * haystack * hayward * hit the hay * make hay while the sun shinesExternal links
* (wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- (Huloet)
References
Webster's Online Dictionary article on hay
Etymology 2
: From the sound it represents, by analogy with other letters such as kay'' and ''gay''. The expected form in English if the ''h'' had survived in the Latin name of the letter "h", ''h? .Anagrams
* * * ----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