Oar vs Oak - What's the difference?
oar | oak |
An implement used to propel a boat or a ship in the water, having a flat blade at one end, being rowed from the other end and being normally fastened to the vessel.
An oarsman; a rower.
(zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
To row; to propel with oars.
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(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
As a noun oar
is .As an adjective oak is
.oar
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(wikipedia oar)Noun
(en noun)- He is a good oar .
Synonyms
* (implement used to propel a boat) paddleDerived terms
* stick one's oar inVerb
(en verb)- Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.
Anagrams
* * * ----oak
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Derived terms
* *Hypernyms
* (oak tree) treeMeronyms
* (oak tree) acornAdjective
(-)- an oak' table, ' oak beam, etc
- an oak' wood, ' oak forest, etc