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Laid vs Plaid - What's the difference?

laid | plaid |

As verbs the difference between laid and plaid

is that laid is past tense of lay while plaid is past tense of play.

As adjectives the difference between laid and plaid

is that laid is marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould while plaid is having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.

As a noun plaid is

a type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

laid

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lay)

    • Derived terms

    * get laid * laid rope

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

    • Derived terms

    * creamlaid

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    plaid

    English

    (wikipedia plaid)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) plaid, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a past participle form of (ply). Scottish Gaelic is probably a borrowing from Scots.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  • A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.
  • *2009 , , Glencoe , Amberley 2009, p.47:
  • *:In battle, the plaid was customarily shrugged off before the charge bit home, and the warrior came into contact with only his long, saffron shirt (‘leine chrochach ’) to preserve modesty.
  • The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (play)
  • * 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 134,
    • "...then plaid on the organ, and sung..."
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