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Hey vs Pasture - What's the difference?

hey | pasture |

As nouns the difference between hey and pasture

is that hey is (country dancing) a choreographic figure in which the dancers weave between one another while pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.

As an interjection hey

is an exclamation to get attention.

As a verb pasture is

to move animals into a to graze.

hey

English

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l)

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • An exclamation to get attention.
  • Hey , look at this!
  • A protest or reprimand.
  • Hey ! Stop that!
  • An expression of surprise.
  • Hey ! This is new!
  • (US, Australia, UK, Canada) An informal greeting, similar to hi.
  • Hey ! How's it going?
  • A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion (see also eh, huh).
  • Hey ? How's that?
  • A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
  • The chorus is "nana na na, nana na na hey hey hey, goodbye".

    See also

    * huh * hay is for horses * (wikipedia "hey")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (country dancing) A choreographic figure in which the dancers weave between one another.
  • Anagrams

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    pasture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
  • Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxiii. 2
  • He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .
  • * Shakespeare
  • So graze as you find pasture .
  • (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
  • Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

    Derived terms

    * pasture rose * pasture thistle

    Verb

  • To move animals into a to graze.
  • To graze.
  • To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
  • The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.

    Anagrams

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