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teen | octothorpe |

As nouns the difference between teen and octothorpe

is that teen is a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old or teen can be (label) grief, sorrow; suffering while octothorpe is (chiefly|us) the hash or square symbol (), used mainly in telephony and computing.

As a verb teen

is (obsolete) to excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure or teen can be (transitive|obsolete|provincial) to hedge or fence in; to enclose.

teen

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See (token).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
  • *, III.5:
  • *:In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene , / As it an earthly Paradize had beene.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xxv:
  • *:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
  • *
  • *:MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.
  • *1866 , (Algernon Swinburne), :
  • *:Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen ;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget
  • *1867 , (Matthew Arnold), A Southern Night :
  • *:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
  • *1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night), XXI:
  • *:That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . See Etymology 2 above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
    • (Piers Plowman)

    Etymology 4

    See tine to shut

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
    • (Halliwell)

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    octothorpe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * octothorp

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, US) The hash or square symbol (), used mainly in telephony and computing
  • * 1982 , Willard R. Espy, A Children's Almanac of Words at Play , Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., page 230
    • Octothorp is the
  • on a push-button telephone. Rumor at the telephone company is that a man named Charles B. Octothorp, wanting to make his name famous...
  • * 2004 , Andrew Pitonyak, Openoffice.Org Macros Explained , Hentzenwerke, page 139
    • Strings are enclosed in double quotation marks, numbers are not enclosed in anything, and dates and Boolean values are enclosed between octothorpe (
  • ) characters.

    • Synonyms

    * hash, octothorn, pound sign, number sign, hashtag, tic-tac-toe sign, naughts and crosses sign/symbol

    See also

    *

    External links

    * (Number sign)