Marrow vs Essence - What's the difference?
marrow | essence |
(lb) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(lb) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.
*1847 , Sir (Robert Hermann Schomburgk), "Steam-Boat Voyage to Barbados", Bentley's Miscellany , Vol XXII, London: Richard Bentley, p.37:
*:The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow , were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.
The essence; the best part.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:It takes from our achievements/ The pith and marrow of our attribute.
*(Thomas Tusser) (1524-1580)
*:Chopping and changing I cannot commend, / With thief or his marrow , for fear of ill end.
(Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
(Scotland) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
(senseid)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
* Landor
* Addison
* Courthorpe
(philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
Constituent substance.
* Milton
A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
* Milton
* Washington Irving
A significant feature of something.
The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
* essence of Jojoba
Fragrance, a perfume.
* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between marrow and essence
is that marrow is (lb) the substance inside bones which produces blood cells or marrow can be (geordie|informal) a friend, pal, buddy, mate while essence is (senseid)the inherent nature of a thing or idea.marrow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mary, marow, marowe, , Icelandic (m), and also Russian ("brain").Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bone marrow * marrowboneEtymology 2
From (etyl) margr.Alternative forms
* marraNoun
(en noun)- Cheers marrow !
References
* * *essence
English
Noun
(en noun)- The laws are at present, both in form and essence , the greatest curse that society labours under.
- Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity].
- The essence of Addison's humour is irony.
- Uncompounded is their essence pure.
- As far as gods and heavenly essences / Can perish.
- He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences , until he had an ideal world of his own around him.
- Nor let the essences exhale.
