Noosed vs Nooned - What's the difference?
noosed | nooned |
(noose)
(of rope) having a noose
*{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Edward Morris, title=A Dictionary of Austral English, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Plate p. 286--A Poto Roo or Kangaroo-Rat. Plate p. 288--Hepoona Roo. Rope , v. tr. to catch a horse or bullock with a noosed rope. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Herbert Hayens, title=At the Point of the Sword, chapter=, edition=
, passage=In one hand he carried a lantern, in the other a noosed rope, and he felt his way carefully. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Van Tassel Sutphen, title=The Doomsman, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Having strung a length of noosed cord to a light pole, Constans threw himself flat along the string-piece of the pier and began angling for the prize. }}
(noon)
(obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
(obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
* 1885', When night was at its '''noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17:
(figurative) The highest point; culmination.
* Motley
To relax or sleep around midday
* 1906 , (Andy Adams), The Double Trail
*:Well, we crossed and nooned , lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around.
* 1889 , (Mark Twain), (w, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
*:Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
* 1853 , (Theodore Winthrop), The Canoe and the Saddle
*:We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning , the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
As verbs the difference between noosed and nooned
is that noosed is (noose) while nooned is (noon).As an adjective noosed
is (of rope) having a noose.noosed
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(wikipedia noon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.Noun
(en noun)- In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
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* (middle of the night) midnightSee also
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(en verb)Chapter XX