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Milt vs Millet - What's the difference?

milt | millet |

As nouns the difference between milt and millet

is that milt is the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food 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 a verb milt

is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

As a proper noun Millet is

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milt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
  • *, II.12:
    • we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt , another in the braine.
  • * 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
    • Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.
  • Fish semen.

    • Derived terms

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    Related terms

    * *

    Synonyms

    * (fish semen) soft roe, white roe

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

    • 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.