Loaf vs Bag - What's the difference?
loaf | bag |
(also loaf of bread ) A block of bread after baking.
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, title= Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf ).
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A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
To do nothing, to be idle.
(Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)
A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
(label) A handbag
A suitcase.
A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
One’s preference.
(label) An ugly woman.
(label) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(label) First, second, or third base.
(label) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(label) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
A scrotum.
(label) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
To put into a bag.
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
(label) To furnish or load with a bag.
* Dryden
To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
To laugh uncontrollably.
To criticise sarcastically.
(label) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To swell or hang down like a full bag.
To swell with arrogance.
To become pregnant.
As nouns the difference between loaf and bag
is that loaf is (also loaf of bread ) a block of bread after baking while bag is a flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.As verbs the difference between loaf and bag
is that loaf is to do nothing, to be idle while bag is to put into a bag.loaf
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lof, laf, from (etyl) .Noun
(loaves)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* bonce, noddle, nutDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * half a loaf is better than none * (l)References
* (soap) Miller, J.L. "Customers believe in downstate Soap Fairy", , B10, January 10, 2006.Etymology 2
Probably aVerb
(en verb)- loaf''' about'', '''''loaf around .
Synonyms
* idle, laze, loungeAnagrams
* English nouns with irregular pluralsbag
English
(wikipedia bag)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (flexible container) poke (obsolete), sack, tote * (handbag) handbag, purse (US) * (preference) cup of tea, thing * (ugly woman) dog, hag * (in mathematics) multisetHyponyms
* (flexible container) bindleVerb
(bagg)- (Chaucer)
