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Knead vs Tan - What's the difference?

knead | tan |

As a verb knead

is (senseid)to work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

As a proper noun tan is

the eighth heavenly stem.

knead

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (senseid)To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
  • * 2001 , Özcan Ozan, Carl Tremblay, The Sultan's Kitchen: A Turkish Cookbook
  • Knead the dough by pressing down on it with the heels of both your palms and pushing it forward to stretch it, then pulling it back toward you...
  • (figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I will knead him: I'll make him supple.
  • (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
  • * 1991 , Grace McHattie, That's cats!: a compendium of feline facts
  • Cats knead with their paws when happy, just as they kneaded when feeding from their mothers as kittens.

    Anagrams

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    tan

    Translingual

    (wikipedia tan)

    Symbol

    (head)
  • A symbol of the trigonometric function tangent.
  • Synonyms

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