Stanch vs Kowtow - What's the difference?
stanch | kowtow |
To stop the flow of.
* Francis Bacon
To cease, as the flowing of blood.
* Bible, Luke viii. 44
To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
* Emerson
To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
That which stanches or checks.
A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
Strong and tight; sound; firm.
* Evelyn
Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast.
* Prior
Close; secret; private.
* John Locke
In lang=en terms the difference between stanch and kowtow
is that stanch is to prop; to make stanch, or strong while kowtow is to bow very deeply.As verbs the difference between stanch and kowtow
is that stanch is to stop the flow of while kowtow is to kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.As nouns the difference between stanch and kowtow
is that stanch is that which stanches or checks while kowtow is the act of kowtowing.As an adjective stanch
is strong and tight; sound; firm.stanch
English
Alternative forms
* staunchVerb
(es)- A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
- Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.
- Immediately her issue of blood stanched .
- His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow tower when snow should fall.
Noun
(es)- (Knight)
Adjective
(er)- a stanch ship
- One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
- a stanch''' churchman; a '''stanch friend or adherent
- In politics I hear you're stanch .
- this to be kept stanch