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Mild vs Halcyon - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between mild and halcyon

is that mild is gentle and not easily provoked while halcyon is pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.

As nouns the difference between mild and halcyon

is that mild is a relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale while halcyon is in classical legends, a bird said to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters; later usually identified with a type of kingfisher, hence a kingfisher.

mild

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(er)
  • Gentle and not easily provoked.
  • (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity.
  • Not keenly felt or seriously intended.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • (of an illness or pain) Not serious or dangerous.
  • * {{quote-book, author=Rachel Simon, year=2002
    • , passage=I learn that mental retardation is classified in four levels: mild , moderate, severe, and profound. , title= Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey}}
  • * {{quote-book, author=Janice A. Gault, year=2003
    • , passage=NPDR can be further classified as mild , moderate, severe, or very severe, which can help predict how quickly the patient may progress to proliferative (neovascular) diabetic retinopathy (PDR). , title= Ophthalmology Pearls}}
  • (of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.
  • (of a medicine or cosmetic) Acting gently and without causing harm.
  • Not sharp, or strong in flavor.

    • Synonyms

    * soft, gentle, bland, calm, tranquil, soothing, pleasant, placid, meek, kind, tender, indulgent, clement, mollifying, lenitive, assuasive * See also

    Antonyms

    * strong * harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale
  • * 1998 , Robert Rankin, The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag (page 112)
    • 'Let me get this for the lady,' I said to Fange, who was pulling her a pint of mild .
  • * 2011 , Pete Brown, Three Sheets to the Wind
    • But Stella shouldn't really be drunk in pints the same way our dads used to drink bitter or mild that was effectively half as strong.

    Derived terms

    * mild and bitter

    External links

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    halcyon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • In classical legends, a bird said to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters; later usually identified with a type of kingfisher, hence (poetic) a kingfisher.
  • *, II.12:
    • the Halcyon' bird, or as some call it Alcedo or Kings-fisher, exceeds all mens conceit..
  • * 1665 , (John Dryden), (The Indian Emperour) , IV iv 132:
    • Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be / As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.
  • * c''.1880 , (Ambrose Bierce), '' :
    • And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.
  • * Dryden
    • Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be / As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.
  • A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon'', such as the sacred kingfisher ''(Halcyon sancta) of Australia.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher
  • Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.

    • Quotations

    {{timeline, 1700s=1787, 1800s=1842, 1900s=1919 1963}} * 1787 — *: Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age. * 1842 — , Cicero *:* Deep, halcyon repose. * 1919 — *: I had wander’d in rapture beneath them, and bask’d in the Halcyon clime. *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham) , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}

    Synonyms

    * at peace, blissful, calm, peaceful, prelapsarian, relaxed, serene

    Derived terms

    * halcyon days

    See also

    * Alcyone ----