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Mahogany vs Oar - What's the difference?

mahogany | oar |

As nouns the difference between mahogany and oar

is that mahogany is (countable) any of various tropical american evergreen trees, of the genus swietenia , having a valuable hard red-brown wood while oar is .

As an adjective mahogany

is made of mahogany.

mahogany

Noun

  • (countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia , having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
  • (uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
  • A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
  • A table made from mahogany wood.
  • * 1842 , Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
  • Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany ?

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of mahogany.
  • Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
  • Anagrams

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    oar

    English

    (wikipedia oar)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An implement used to propel a boat or a ship in the water, having a flat blade at one end, being rowed from the other end and being normally fastened to the vessel.
  • An oarsman; a rower.
  • He is a good oar .
  • (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
  • Synonyms

    * (implement used to propel a boat) paddle

    Derived terms

    * stick one's oar in

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To row; to propel with oars.
  • *
  • Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.

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