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As nouns the difference between marriage and blood

is that marriage is the state of being married while blood is a vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen in vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

As a verb blood is

to cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

marriage

Noun

  • (en noun)
  • The state of being married.
  • You should enter marriage for love.
  • A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal and/or social rights and responsibilities.
  • * 1944 , Tiaki Hikawera Mitira, Takitimu , page 123:
  • By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.
  • * 1990 , John Stevens, Lust for enlightenment: Buddhism and sex :
  • One layman in Buddha's time decided to embrace celibacy and relinquished his marriage vows to his four wives. When he asked them what they wanted in terms of a settlement, one said,
  • * 1995 , Edith Deen, All of the women of the Bible , page 275:
  • The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.
  • * 2009 , Charles Zastrow, Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People (ISBN 0495809527), page 30:
  • In an open marriage , the partners are free to have extramarital relationships or sex without betraying one another. Such a marriage is based on communication, trust, and respect,
  • # (often specifically) The union of any two people, to the exclusion of all others.
  • #* '>citation
  • "I have a patient right now whose marriage proved to be a tragedy. She wanted love, sexual gratification, children, and social prestige; but life blasted all her hopes. Her husband didn't love her. He refused even to eat with her, and forced her to serve his meals in his room upstairs. She had no children, no social standing. She went insane; and, in her imagination, she divorced her husband and resumed her maiden name. She now believes she has married into the English aristocracy, and she insists on being called Lady Smith.
  • My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.
  • Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years.
  • # (sometimes specifically) The union of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.
  • A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
  • You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
  • (figuratively) A close union.
  • * 2000 , Edmund E. Jacobitti, The Classical Heritage in Machiavelli's Histories'', in ''The comedy and tragedy of Machiavelli: essays on the literary works (edited by Vickie B. Sullivan), page 181:
  • And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period.
  • * 2003 , Paul Mattick, Art in its time: theories and practices of modern aesthetics , page 105:
  • Above all, we will no longer have to feel qualms about the marriage of art and money. We will no longer have to wonder if it is possible to separate the esthetic value of an art work from its commercial value.
  • * 2006' August 9, Amy Scattergood, ''A wild dream in the wild'', published in the ''Los Angeles Times'', republished in '''2009 in ''The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant (by Michelle and Phillip Wojtowicz and Michael Gilson with Catherine Price), on the cover:
  • But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
  • A joining of two parts.
  • (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em or melded in pinochle.
  • (card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
  • Usage notes

    * For a detailed discussion of marriage as an institution, with its traditions, its norms, and its accompanying legal rights and obligations, please consult the . * On Wiktionary, see also "common-law marriage", "open marriage" and "gay marriage".

    Synonyms

    * matrimony * wedding * civil union

    Antonyms

    * divorce

    Derived terms

    (marriage) * arranged marriage * Boston marriage * celestial marriage, celestial plural marriage * ceremonial marriage * child marriage * civil marriage * common-law marriage, common law marriage * companionate marriage * consummate marriage * defend marriage * earthly marriage * eternal marriage * frank-marriage * gay marriage * ghost marriage * group marriage * heavenly marriage * heterosexual marriage * homosexual marriage * informal marriage * inmarriage * institution of marriage * intermarriage, inter-marriage * Josephite marriage * levirate marriage * line marriage * marriageability * marriageable * marriage bed * marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute * marriage by habit and repute * marriage certificate * marriage counseling, marriage counselling * marriage counselor, marriage counsellor * marriage finger * marriage guidance * marriage licence, marriage license * marriage lite * marriage of convenience * marriage penalty * mixed marriage * mop marriage * morganatic marriage * multilateral marriage * mystical marriage * natural marriage * open marriage * outmarriage * plural marriage * polygamous marriage * postmarriage * posthumous marriage * pre-marriage * proxy marriage * pseudomarriage, pseudo-marriage * remarriage * republican marriage * royal marriage * same-sex marriage * sexless marriage * shotgun marriage * sororate marriage * spirit marriage * suspended marriage * temple marriage * traditional marriage * unmarriageability * unmarriageable * white marriage * work marriage * yogic marriage

    See also

    * adelphogamy * bigamy * cohabitation * divorce * matrimony * monogamy * one flesh * polyandry * polygamy * polygyny * wedding * (group marriage)

    References

    * Michael Weisenberg, The Official Dictionary of Poker (2000, MGI/Mike Caro University, ISBN 978-1880069523)

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    blood

    English

    (wikipedia blood)

    Alternative forms

    * bloud (obsolete)

    Noun

  • A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
  • * (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
  • a friend of our own blood
  • * Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • to share the blood of Saxon royalty
  • A blood test or blood sample.
  • The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
  • * 1841 , Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus , page 95:
  • It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
  • * 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
  • Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
  • * 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
  • Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
  • (label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
  • * Bible, (w) xiix. 11
  • He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
  • (label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
  • (label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
  • * (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
  • It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .
  • (member of a certain gang).
  • Hyponyms

    * menstruation

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bad blood , blood atonement , blood bank , bloodbath, blood bath , blood blister , blood brother , blood-curdling , blood diamond , blood donor , blood drive , blood eagle , bloodhound , blood is thicker than water , bloodless , bloodletting , bloodline , bloodlust, blood lust , bloody-minded , blood money , blood moon , blood orange , blood poisoning , blood product , blood pudding , blood relative, blood relation , blood sample , blood sausage , bloodshed , bloodshot , bloodsome , blood sport , bloodstain , blood-stained, bloodstained , bloodstream , bloodsucker , blood test , bloodthirsty , blood type , blood vessel , bloodwood , bloody , bloody mary , by blood , cold-blooded , first blood , for one's blood to boil , give blood , have blood on one's hands , have someone's blood on one's head , hot-blooded , in cold blood , make someone's blood boil , make someone's blood run cold , one's blood runs cold , 'sblood , smell blood , too rich for one's blood , warm-blooded}}

    See also

    * coagulation * sanguinary * sanguine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
  • To let blood (from); to bleed.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
  • To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
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