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Ired vs Cred - What's the difference?

ired | cred |

As a verb ired

is past tense of ire.

As a noun cred is

credibility.

ired

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ire)

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    ire

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ire, yre, shortened form of . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Iron.
    • The cruel ire , red as any gleed. — Chaucer.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) ire, from (etyl) , (etyl) aesma'' 'anger', (etyl) ''e?ati 'it drives on').

    Noun

    (-)
  • (literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
    • Synonyms
    * fury * rage * wrath
    Related terms
    * irascibility * irascible * irate * ireful

    Verb

    (ir)
  • To anger; to fret; to irritate.

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    cred

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (urban, slang) Credibility.
    • After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned.
  • * 2002 , Popular Science (volume 261, number 5, November 2002, page 48)
    • Don't worry about losing geek cred here: In addition to its usual functions, the remote will be able to call up a customizable Command menu that executes any program or script you have the temerity to put in its configuration file.
  • (computing, informal, usually, in the plural) credential
    • 1998', "Lou Langholtz", ''DCE programming: using login '''creds to auth server?'' (on newsgroup ''comp.soft-sys.dce )

    Derived terms

    * street cred

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