Mouth vs Moth - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between mouth and moth

is that mouth is to pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow while moth is to hunt for moths.

As nouns the difference between mouth and moth

is that mouth is (anatomy) the opening of a creature through which food is ingested while moth is a usually nocturnal insect of the order lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae or moth can be the plant or moth can be .

As verbs the difference between mouth and moth

is that mouth is to speak; to utter while moth is to hunt for moths.

mouth

English

(wikipedia mouth)

Noun

(en noun)

(anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

* , chapter=7

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs.

The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.

An outlet, aperture or orifice.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}

(slang) A loud or overly talkative person.

(saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

(obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

* Addison

Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.

(obsolete) Cry; voice.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.

* Bible, Matt. xviii. 16

that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established

(obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

* Shakespeare

Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(en verb)

To speak; to utter.

He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.

* Hare

mouthing big phrases

To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.

The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.

To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.

The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.

(obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

(obsolete) To make mouths at.

Derived terms

(mouth) * a closed mouth gathers no feet * all mouth and pants/trousers]], all mouth and no pants/[[all mouth and no trousers, trousers, all mouth * ass-to-mouth/ATM * badmouth * bad taste in one's mouth * bellmouth * big mouth * blabbermouth * born with a silver spoon in one's mouth * broadmouth * cottonmouth * dirty mouth * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * down in the mouth * dragon's mouth * dry mouth * fishmouth * flannelmouth * flutemouth * foam at the mouth * foot-and-mouth/foot and mouth * frogmouth * froth at the mouth * goalmouth * guttermouth * headmouth * hand-foot-and-mouth disease * hand-to-mouth * horse's mouth * keep one's mouth shut * largemouth * loudmouth/loud-mouth, loudmouthed/loud-mouthed * motor mouth * mouth bow * mouth-breather * mouthbreathing * mouthbrooder * mouthed/-mouthed * mouther * mouthfeel * mouth-footed * mouth harp * mouth-made * mouth of a sailor * mouth mirror * mouthful * mouthguard * mouthless * mouthlike * mouthly * mouth music * mouth off * mouth organ * mouthpart * mouthpiece * mouth-to-mouth * mouthwash * mouthwatering/mouth-watering * mouthy * out of the mouths of babes * pipemouth * poormouth * potty mouth * put one's foot in one's mouth * put one's money where one's mouth is * put words in somebody's mouth * redmouth * river mouth * run off at the mouth * saltmouth * scabby mouth * sea mouth * shoot off at the mouth * shoot one's mouth off * shut one's mouth * smallmouth * smash-mouth/smashmouth * straight from the horse's mouth * suckermouth * trench mouth * warmouth * wash your mouth out * watch your mouth * word of mouth * wrymouth

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moth

English

Etymology 1

Germanic: from (etyl) '', German ''Motte .

Noun

(en noun)

A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

(figurative) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

Synonyms

* lep

Derived terms

* almond moth * almond tree leaf skeletoniser moth, almond tree leaf skeletonizer moth * antler moth * apple-moth * Atlas moth * autumnal moth * bagworm moth * black witch moth * Bogong moth * bagworm moth * bee moth * black-arched moth * brimstone moth * brown-tailed moth, brown-tail moth, browntail moth * burnet companion moth * burnet moth * cabbage moth * carpet moth * case moth * cecropia moth * cinnabar moth * clothes moth * clothing moth * codlin moth, codling moth * comet moth * cotton leafworm moth * cup moth * death's head moth * diamond-back moth, diamondback moth * dot moth * Douglas-fir tussock moth * emperor moth * ermine moth * garden tiger moth * geometer moth * ghost moth * goat moth * gooseberry-moth * grass moth * giant leopard moth * gipsy moth, gypsy moth * hag moth * hawk moth, hawk-moth, hawkmoth * honeycomb moth * imperial moth * Indian meal moth * io moth * kitten-moth * lackey moth * lappet moth * leaf roller moth * leek moth * leopard moth * light brown apple moth * lobster moth * luna moth * magpie moth * many-plumed moth * Mediterranean flour moth * mint moth * moth ball, moth-ball, mothball * moth blight * moth-borer * moth-eaten * mothed * mothen * Mother Shipton moth * moth flower * moth fly * moth freckle * moth-fretted * moth-fretten * moth gnat * moth-hunter * mothless * moth-like, mothlike * moth miller * moth mullein * moth orchid * moth patch * moth-proof, mothproof * moth sphinx * moth spot * moth-time * mothweed * moth wing * mothwort * mothy * mouse moth * night moth * November moth * nun moth * ochre-winged hag moth * oriental leafworm moth * owlet moth * owl moth * painted apple moth * pale November moth * Pandora sphinx moth * pasture day moth * pear leaf blister moth * peppered moth * plume moth * polyphemus moth * processionary moth * pug-moth * puss moth * rabbit moth * rusty tussock moth * satin moth * scarlet tiger moth * shipton moth * short-cloaked moth * silkworm moth * slug moth * snout moth * southern flannel moth * sphinx moth * summer fruit tortrix moth * swallow-tailed moth * tapestry moth * tiger moth * turnip moth * tussock moth * unicorn moth * veneer moth * vine moth, vine-moth * wax moth * western tussock moth * wheat moth * white-marked tussock moth * white witch moth * winter moth * witch moth * yellow-shouldered slug moth * Y moth * yucca moth

Verb

(en verb)

To hunt for moths.

Derived terms

* mothing

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (wikipedia moth)

Noun

The plant .

Synonyms

* , matki

External links

* (projectlink) * (Vigna aconitifolia) * (Vigna aconitifolia) *

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, / A moth of peace, and he go to the war, / The rites for which I love him are bereft me, / And I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence. Let me go with him.

(dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.

* 1895 , Good Housekeeping , page 196, ISSN: 0731-3462

To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.

* 1999 , R. L. Gupta, Directory of Diseases & Cures: In Homoeopathy , page 254, ISBN 8170215161.

Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.

* 2005 , J. D. Patil, Textbook of Applied Materia Medica , page 108, ISBN 8180565904.

There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.

Anagrams

* Thom

References

English heteronyms