Mend vs Dan - What's the difference?
mend | dan |
A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
The act of repairing.
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
* Sir W. Temple
To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
* Mortimer
* Shakespeare
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
(obsolete)
* Spenser
* Thomson
As a verb mend
is to feed.As an adjective dan is
stretched.mend
English
Noun
(en noun)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend .
Derived terms
* on the mendVerb
(en verb)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending .
- When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended .
- Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
- My broken heart was mended .
- The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
- Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
- You mend the jewel by wearing it.
Derived terms
* mend one's paceSynonyms
* See alsoExternal links
* * * English ergative verbsdan
English
(dan rank)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Etymology 2
Uncertain.Etymology 3
(etyl)Noun
- Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright / The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
- What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.