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Husk vs Casing - What's the difference?

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Husk is a related term of casing.


As nouns the difference between husk and casing

is that husk is the dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside while casing is that which encloses or encases.

As verbs the difference between husk and casing

is that husk is to remove husks from or husk can be to say huskily, to utter in a husky voice while casing is .

husk

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l), (l). Alternate etymology derives husk from Low German .)

Noun

(wikipedia husk) (en noun)
  • The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
  • A coconut has a very thick husk .
  • Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something
  • His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.
  • The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove husks from.
  • Etymology 2

    Partly imitative, partly from Etymology 1, above, influenced by (husky).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
  • * The French captain did not immediately respond; he looked at his men with a miserable expression [...]; still he hesitated, drooped, and finally husked , "Je me rends," with a look still more wretched. — (Naomi Novik), "His Majesty's Dragon"
  • See also

    * husky

    References

    The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary , 2nd Ed., Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1978 ----

    casing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which encloses or encases.
  • Some people like to split the casing of a sausage before cooking so it doesn't burst. Others don't.
  • (uncountable, computing) The collective states of upper and lower case letters.
  • The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.

    Derived terms

    * sausage casing

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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