Muzzle vs Suppress - What's the difference?
muzzle | suppress |
The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout
The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.
A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
(chiefly, Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle
(obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4
(figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
* 1919 , :
(obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
(obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
* (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange
to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue
to restrain or repress an expression
(psychiatry) to exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind
to prevent publication
to stop a flow or stream
(US, legal) to forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained
(electronics) to reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal
(obsolete) to hold in place, to keep low
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between muzzle and suppress
is that muzzle is (obsolete) to fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle while suppress is (obsolete) to hold in place, to keep low.As verbs the difference between muzzle and suppress
is that muzzle is to bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting while suppress is to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.As a noun muzzle
is the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout.muzzle
English
(wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocityVerb
(muzzl)- Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
- Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
- The bear muzzles and smells to him.
Derived terms
* muzzlerReferences
* *suppress
English
Verb
- ''Political dissent was brutally suppressed .
- ''I struggled to suppress my smile.
- He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.
- The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.
- The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.
- ''Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.