Ovine vs Opine - What's the difference?
ovine | opine |
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep.
* 1992 , Colin Tudge, Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can be Stopped , page 175
Specifically, resembling a sheep in character; passive, of low intelligence and acquiescent.
To have or express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
To give one's formal opinion (on'' or ''upon something).
(biochemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds, derived from amino acids, found in some plant tumours
As an adjective ovine
is of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep.As a noun ovine
is a sheep.As a verb opine is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Thus, in general, cattle sperm are reasonably robust, but sheep much less so. Antelope, evolutionarily speaking, are somewhere between cattle and sheep: some are cattle-like, and some are more ovine .
Synonyms
* (of or relating to sheep) sheeplike, sheepy * (resembling a sheep in character)Derived terms
* corticorelin ovine triflutate * infectious ovine keratoconjunctivitis * ovine acetonaemia, ovine acetonemia * ovine babesiosis * ovine-caprine lentivirus * ovine ecthyma vaccine * ovine foot rot * ovine genital campylobacteriosis * ovine genital vibriosis * ovine mastitis * ovine progressive pneumonia * ovine pulmonary adenomatosis * ovine smallpoxAnagrams
* ----opine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) opiner, from (etyl) ; see optate and opt.Verb
(opin)- I opined that matters would soon become considerably worse.
- ''"Your decisions," she opined , "have been unfailingly disastrous for this company."
- I had to opine on the situation because I thought a different perspective was in order.