Kidney vs Mettle - What's the difference?
kidney | mettle |
An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
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This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.
Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)
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(obsolete, slang) A waiter.
A quality of endurance and courage.
* 360 BCE , , Book VIII.
* 1599 , '', act iv, scene 8 (''First Folio ed.)
* 2001 , Harry J. Alexandrowicz, Testing your Mettle: Tough Problems and Real-world Solutions for Middle and High School Teachers , page xiii
Good temperament and character.
* 1868 , , Bleak House
(obsolete) Metal; a metallic substance.
* 1837 , Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy , page 78
As nouns the difference between kidney and mettle
is that kidney is an organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine while mettle is a quality of endurance and courage.kidney
English
(wikipedia kidney)Noun
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- Falstaff: " &
- 0133; think of that, – a man of my kidney, – think of that, …"
- millions in the world of this man's kidney
- Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney , pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence.
- (Tatler)
Synonyms
* rein * nephros * renDerived terms
* kidney bean * kidney belt * kidney punch * kidney stone * kidney vetch * steak and kidney pieSee also
* renal * suprarenalmettle
English
Noun
(-)- In the succeeding generation rulers will be appointed who have lost the guardian power of testing the metal of your different races, which, like Hesiod's, are of gold and silver and brass and iron.
- By this Day and this Light, the fellow ha's mettell enough in his belly.
- Please read on and discover the issues in education that test the mettle of those who experience this world every day.
- The arrival of this unexpected heir soon taking wind in the court, still makes good for the Sol, and keeps the court upon its mettle .
- They have neither gold nor silver of their own, wine nor oyl, or scarce any corn growing in those United Provinces, little or no wood, tin, lead, iron, silk, wooll, any stuff almost, or mettle ; and yet Hungary, Transilvania, that brag of their mines, fertile England, cannot compare with them.