Hem vs Urge - What's the difference?
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An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
* Spectator
To make the sound expressed by the word hem ; to hesitate in speaking.
* Shakespeare
(sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
A rim or margin of something.
* Shakespeare
In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
(in sewing) To make a hem.
(transitive): To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
(transitive): To surround something or someone in a confining way.
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
* Alexander Pope
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
* Shakespeare
To provoke; to exasperate.
* Shakespeare
To press hard upon; to follow closely.
* Alexander Pope
To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
(obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
To press onward or forward.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
Hem is a related term of urge.
As nouns the difference between hem and urge
is that hem is an utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention or hem can be (sewing) the border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying while urge is gopher (a small burrowing furry rodent).As an interjection hem
is used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.As a verb hem
is to make the sound expressed by the word hem ; to hesitate in speaking or hem can be (in sewing) to make a hem.As a pronoun hem
is .hem
English
Etymology 1
A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)See also
* ahem * hawNoun
(en noun)- his morning hems
Verb
(hemm)- Hem , and stroke thy beard.
Derived terms
* hem and hawEtymology 2
From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hemm and related to Middle High German .Noun
(en noun)- hem of the sea
Derived terms
* touch the hem of someone's garmentVerb
(hemm)Etymology 3
From (etyl) hem, from (etyl) .Anagrams
* ----urge
English
Verb
(urg)- through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight
- My brother never / Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
- Urge not my father's anger.
- Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
- to urge''' an argument; to '''urge the necessity of a case
- to urge an ore with intense heat