Oak vs Compel - What's the difference?
oak | compel |
(senseid)(lb) A tree of the genus Quercus .
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
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*:Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks , and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.
(lb) The wood of the oak.
A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
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(colour) of a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
made of oak wood or timber
consisting of oak trees
(transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up (rfex)
To overpower; to subdue.
* 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 16,
To force, constrain or coerce.
* 1600 , , Julius Caesar , act 5, sc. 1,
* Hallam
To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
* Shakespeare
* 1912 , , Sky Island , ch. 14,
(obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
* Dryden
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.
* Spenser
As a noun oak
is (senseid)(lb) a tree of the genus quercus .As a adjective oak
is (colour) of a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.As a verb compel is
(transitive|archaic|literally) to drive together, round up.oak
English
Noun
Derived terms
* *Hypernyms
* (oak tree) treeMeronyms
* (oak tree) acornAdjective
(-)- an oak' table, ' oak beam, etc
- an oak' wood, ' oak forest, etc
Derived terms
* acute oak decline * blackjack oak * chestnut oak * (chinquapin oak) * (coast live oak) * cork oak * durmast oak * fumed oak * holly oak * holm oak * Jerusalem oak * kermes oak * live oak * oak apple * oak fern * Oak Forest * oak gall * oak leaf cluster * Oak Park * oak pruner * oak wilt * oaken * Oakland * oakmoss * oak processionary moth * Oakville * pin oak * poison oak * red oak * scarlet oak * sessile oak * silky oak * scrub oak * (tan oak) * (valley oak) * water oak * white oak * willow oakSee also
* acorn * cork * ellagic acid * encina * nutgall * quercetin * quercitron * roble * shillelagh * tanbark * valonia * wainscot * (topicsee)External links
* (wikipedia "oak")Anagrams
* (l) * (l), (l)compel
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Verb
- She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man.
- Logic compels''' the wise, while fools feel '''compelled by emotions.
- Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.
- Wolsey compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
- Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.
- The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order.
- Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled .
- I compel all creatures to my will.
- in one troop compelled
- She had this knight from far compelled .
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