Maiden vs Initial - What's the difference?
maiden | initial | Synonyms |
A girl or an unmarried young woman.
A female virgin.
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A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
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A maidservant.
An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record').
(label) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
:(Wharton)
(label) A maiden over.
(label) A machine for washing linen.
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Virgin.
* Thackeray
Without offspring.
Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
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(cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
Of a fortress, never having been captured or violated.
Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
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, chapter=19 Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial , a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
The first letter of a word or a name.
In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit
(typesetting, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
(phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.
Maiden is a synonym of initial.
As nouns the difference between maiden and initial
is that maiden is morning while initial is the first letter of a word or a name.As an adjective initial is
chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.As a verb initial is
to sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.maiden
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* maidenhair * maidenhead * maidenhood * maidenly, maidenliness * maiden flight * maiden voyage * maiden name * maiden of honor * iron maidenSynonyms
* bacheloretteAdjective
(-)- a surprising old maiden lady
- Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
- The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage .
- After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.
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- maiden flowers
- Full bravely hast thou fleshed / Thy maiden sword.
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Synonyms
* (l)Anagrams
* English adjectives ending in -en ----initial
English
(wikipedia initial)Adjective
(-)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Synonyms
* incipient * openingAntonyms
* finalDerived terms
* initially * initialnessNoun
(en noun)- You can get your initials printed at the top.
Synonyms
* drop cap, versalDerived terms
* initialism * initial teaching alphabetVerb
- Please initial each page and sign the contract in full at the bottom.