Jury vs Wound - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between jury and wound

is that jury is jury while wound is an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

As a verb wound is

to hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin or wound can be (wind).

jury

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) juree , from . (wikipedia jury)

Noun

(juries)

(legal) A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.

* "And so the jury' and he approached, as if this were a time of peace instead of one of the greatest world disturbances ever known in history, the question whether the prosecution had proved to the '''jury’s''' satisfaction that George Joseph Smith was guilty of murder. The '''jury''' were the shield which stood between him and death, unless, to the '''jury’s''' satisfaction, he was proved to be guilty. Yet while they were the shield of the man accused, they were also the Sword of the State; and if the man were proved guilty, they were the servants of the State to punish him. Their respective functions were these: he the judge, had to settle the law, and the '''jury''' must take the law from him. The ' jury were judges of fact."

1952 : James Avery Joyce: Justice At Work'': (this edition Pan 1957) Page 92. commenting on'' R v Smith [1915] 84 LJKB 2153 (1914-15 All ER 262 CCA)

A group of judges in a competition.

Meronyms

* juror

Derived terms

* grand jury * jury box * jury duty * jury panel * jury nullification * jury pool * jury trial * petit jury * the jury is still out

Descendants

* Portuguese:

Verb

To judge by means of a jury.

Etymology 2

Early 1600s. Perhaps ultimately from (etyl) ajurie, from (etyl) adjutare

Adjective

(-)

(nautical) For temporary use; applied to a temporary contrivance.

jury''' mast; '''jury rudder

Derived terms

* jurymast * jury-rig ----

wound

English

Etymology 1

Noun from (etyl) wund, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:

The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.

* Shakespeare

Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.

* 1883:

I went below, and did what I could for my wound ; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.

(figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, etc.

It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.

An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

Synonyms

* (injury) injury, lesion * (sense, something that offends a person's feelings) slight, slur, insult * See also

Derived terms

* dirty wound * entry wound * exit wound * flesh wound * rub salt in the wound * suck one's wounds * time heals all wounds

Verb

(en verb)

To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.

To hurt (a person's feelings).

The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.

Synonyms

* (injure) hurt, injure * offend

Etymology 2

See (Etymology 2)

Verb

(head)

(wind)

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