Peach vs Toilet - What's the difference?
peach | toilet |
A tree (), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
(senseid) The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
* 1915? , T S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
(informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
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The large, edible berry of the , a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
(colour) Of the color peach.
Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
(obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
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* 1916 , (James Joyce), ''(Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 21)
* 1913 , (Rex Stout), Her Forbidden Knight , 1997 edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 123:
(obsolete) To inform against.
(label) Personal grooming; washing, dressing etc.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 111:
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* 1917 , Arthur Conan Doyle, :
(label) A dressing room.
Now specifically, a room or enclosed cubicle containing a lavatory, e.g. a bathroom or water closet (WC).
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* 2002 , Digby Tantam, Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework (page 122)
A lavatory or device for depositing human waste and then flushing it away with water.
Other similar devices, such as squat toilets, as in Japan or the Middle East.
(label) A shabby or dirty place, especially a lounge/bar/pub/tavern.
* 1982 , (The Mosquito Coast) :
(label) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or dressing room.
(label) A dressing table.
* 1904 , Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock , Canto I, lines 121-126:
(label) To dress and groom oneself
To use the toilet, or assist (a child, etc.) in using the toilet
As nouns the difference between peach and toilet
is that peach is (us|informal) a native or resident of georgia in the united states while toilet is (label) personal grooming; washing, dressing etc.As a verb toilet is
(label) to dress and groom oneself.peach
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) peche, from (etyl) pesche (French: . See Perse.Noun
(wikipedia peach) (peaches)- Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach ?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
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Adjective
Synonyms
* agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, rosyAntonyms
* disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasantDerived terms
* Indian peach * lesser peach tree borer * open peach * peachen * peaches and cream * peachlike * Peach Melba * peach palm * peachy * pickle peach * plum peach * press peachSee also
* laetrile * nectarine *Etymology 2
From (etyl) . See impeach.Verb
(es)- If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
- And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.
- "Do you think we want to peach ? No, thank you. We may be none too good, but we won't hang a guy up, no matter who he is."
Synonyms
* (intransitive) sing, squeal, tattleAntonyms
* hide * keep secretAnagrams
* * English terms with multiple etymologiestoilet
English
(wikipedia toilet)Alternative forms
* toiletteNoun
(en noun)- Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets , smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.
- "It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet , and never see the great soul in a man's face."
- "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."
- there were also tons of garbage festering in the sun, and the greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry, and dining rooms littered with food and black with flies, and toilet rooms that were open sewers.
- He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end.
- EPA is currently developing the specification for high-efficiency toilets . All HETs that meet WaterSense criteria for efficiency and performance will be eligible to receive a label once EPA finalizes the specification. —
US Environmental Protection Agency.
- Look around you. It's a toilet .
- And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d,
- Each silver vase in mystic order laid.
- First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores,
- With head uncover’d, the cosmetic powers.
- A heav’nly image in the glass appears;
- To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears.
