Peruse vs Passion - What's the difference?
peruse | passion |
An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.
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To examine or consider with care.
* {{quote-book, 1847,
, passage=Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.}}
To read completely.
* {{quote-book, 1887,
, passage=We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia
(informal) To look over casually; to skim.
* {{quote-book, 2001, Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, page=35
, passage=Haynes quickly perused the message, then took it to the captain on the bridge. }}
* {{quote-book, 2005, , Acid Alex, page=98
, passage=She asked Denise for the court file, which she fussed from her handbag. The woman perused it briefly and then beamed up at me.}}
(regional) To go from place to place; to wander.
* {{quote-book, 1957, , The Old Man And The Boy, page=55
, passage=I loved to straggle off in the mornings
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 16
, author=Saj Chowdhury
, title=Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle
, work=BBC
Fervor, determination.
An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional
The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
A play, musical composition or display meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
* Wyclif Bible (Rom. viii. 18)
(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; opposed to action .
* John Locke
(obsolete) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) An innate quality, property, or attribute of a thing.
(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
* Shakespeare
To give a passionate character to.
As nouns the difference between peruse and passion
is that peruse is an examination or perusal; an instance of perusing while passion is (fervor) passion.As a verb peruse
is to examine or consider with care.peruse
English
Noun
(en noun)Hi-tea, low cost!", Evening Gazette online, September 12,
- A peruse of the website looked promising
Verb
(perus)citation
citation
citation
Usage notes
* The sense of "skimming" is proscribed by some authorities on usage, including the Oxford American Dictionary''. The shift, however, is not dissimilar to that found in (scan). The ''Oxford English Dictionary further notes that the word was used as a general synonym for (read) as far back as the 16th century.Derived terms
* perusable * perusal * peruserAnagrams
* * ----passion
English
Noun
- We share a passion for books.
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- It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion .
- We shared a night of passion .
- a cardiac passion
- the passions of this time
- A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set is motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.
- mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter
- to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle. (rfex)
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* ardor, fire in the belly, zealDerived terms
* passionflower * passion fruit, passionfruit * Passion Sunday * pash * passion popVerb
(en verb)- Dumbly she passions , frantically she doteth.
- (Keats)