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Muzzle vs Tertiate - What's the difference?

muzzle | tertiate |

As verbs the difference between muzzle and tertiate

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 tertiate is ).

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)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocity

    Verb

    (muzzl)
  • To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4
    • Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
  • (figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
  • (obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
  • (obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
  • To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
  • * (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange
    • The bear muzzles and smells to him.

    Derived terms

    * muzzler

    References

    * *

    tertiate

    English

    Verb

  • ).
  • * 1912 May 3rd, F. Madan, “letter to Sir William [Osler]” quoted by Harvey Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler II (2010), pages 999–1,000
    • Seven spills of paper of precisely equal length were given round, and after an interval collected. Had any of them been dimidiated, tertiated or even decimated, the proposed election was void.
  • * 1979 , Frank Gervasi, The Life and Times of Menahem Begin , page 42
    • “The Jews…were not merely decimated'', for that means only one in ten of the world’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, but ''tertiated . One in every three were slaughtered.”
  • * 1981 , Meron Medzini [ed.], Israel’s Foreign Relations: 1977–1979 , page 85
    • The Jewish People were not decimated…. Our people lost every third of its sons or its daughters…it was tertiated .
  • (rare, obsolete) To do or perform for the third time.
    • (Johnson)
  • (firearms) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (decimate equivalents)