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Mallet vs Millet - What's the difference?

mallet | millet |

As nouns the difference between mallet and millet

is that mallet is a type of hammer with a larger than usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul while millet is any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

As proper nouns the difference between mallet and millet

is that mallet is often the malicious party in examples of threat scenarios (synonym: Mallory). See Alice and Bob while Millet is {{surname}.

As a verb mallet

is to strike with a mallet.

mallet

English

(wikipedia mallet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of hammer with a larger than usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.
  • A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
  • * 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 51:
    • The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now in use, except in the length of the handle, it was like the hammer of arms, to be used with both hands, indeed it differed very little from that weapon in its form.
  • A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
  • The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.

    • Derived terms

    * malleter * (cryptography)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike with a mallet.

    • Related terms

    * malleable * malleate

    External links

    * * * ----

    millet

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m); ultimately from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
    • Hyponyms
    * (food grains)
    Coordinate terms
    *
    Derived terms
    * barnyard millet * broom corn millet * browntop millet * common millet * finger millet * foxtail millet * Guinea millet * hog millet * Japanese millet * kodo millet * little millet * milletgrass, millet grass * pearl millet * proso millet * white millet

    External links

    * ("millet" on Wikipedia) * (Millet)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
  • * 2007 , Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain , Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14:
    • in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 262:
    • Christians and Jews as People of the Book were organized into separate communities, or millets , defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.