What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Kis vs Hurtle - What's the difference?

kis | hurtle |

As nouns the difference between kis and hurtle

is that kis is sulfide mineral while hurtle is a fast movement in literal or figurative sense.

As a verb hurtle is

to move rapidly, violently, or without control.

kis

Not English

Kis has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'kis':

kiss, keys, kegs, koss, keks, kyes, kees, kes, kays, koas, kyus, keas, kaws, khus, khis

hurtle

English

Verb

(hurtl)
  • To move rapidly, violently, or without control.
    • The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
    Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
  • (archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
  • * Fairfax
    • Together hurtled both their steeds.
  • (archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.
  • To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.
    • He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
  • (archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
  • * 1975 , Wakeman, John. Literary Criticism
    • But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle .
  • * Monday June 20, 2005 , The Guardian newspaper
    • Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
  • A clattering sound.
  • * 1913 , Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.26
    • There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.

    Anagrams

    * *