Jade vs Irritate - What's the difference?

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Jade is a related term of irritate.

As a noun jade

is ice cream.

As a verb irritate is

(lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.

jade

English

(wikipedia jade)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), error for earlier

Noun

(en-noun)

(senseid)(uncountable) A semiprecious stone either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

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A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.

Derived terms

{{der3, jade gate , jade green , jade plant , jade stalk , jadeite , pseudojade}}

Adjective

(-)

Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

Etymology 2

From (etyl), either a variant of (m)Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 1134942168, 2006) or merely influenced by it. .Per Thorson, ''Anglo-Norse studies: an inquiry into the Scandinavian elements in the modern English dialects'', volume 1 (1936), page 52: "Yad sb. Sc Nhb Lakel Yks Lan, also in forms ''yaad'', ''yaud'', ''yawd'', ''yoad'', ''yod(e)''.... [jad, o] 'a work-horse, a mare' etc. ON ''jalda'' 'made', Sw. dial. ''jäldä'', from Finnish ''elde'' (FT p. 319, Torp p. 156 fol.). Eng. ''jade'' is not related."''Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research'', page 18: "There is thus no etymological connection between ME. ''j?de'' MnE. ''jade'' and ME. ''jald'' MnE. dial. ''yaud etc. But the two words have influenced each other mutually, both formally and semantically." See (m) for more.

Noun

(en noun)

A horse too old to be put to work.

A woman.

Synonyms

* (old horse) yaud

Verb

(jad)

To tire, weary or fatigue

* John Locke

The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.

(obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

* Shakespeare

I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* jaded

References

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irritate

English

Verb

(irritat)

(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.

*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

(lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.

(lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.

(lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).

(lb) To render null and void.

:(Archbishop Bramhall)

Synonyms

* provoke * rile

Antonyms

* please