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Petrel vs Petrify - What's the difference?

petrel | petrify |

As a noun petrel

is any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.

As a verb petrify is

to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

petrel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes .

    • Derived terms

    * Antarctic petrel * Atlantic petrel * Barau's petrel * Bermuda petrel * Bonin petrel * Bulwer's petrel * Chatham petrel * Cook's petrel * European storm petrel * Fea's petrel * Fiji petrel * Gould's petrel * Guadalupe storm petrel * Hawaiian petrel * Juan Fernandez petrel * Kerguelen petrel * Kermadec petrel * Leach's storm petrel * Madeira petrel * Madeiran storm petrel * Magellan diving petrel * Magenta petrel * Markham's storm petrel * Mas a Tierra petrel * Mascarene petrel * Matsudaira's storm petrel * Murphy's petrel * New Zealand storm petrel * Peruvian diving petrel * Phoenix petrel * Polynesian storm petrel * Providence petrel * Pycroft's petrel * South Georgia diving petrel * Stejneger's petrel * Swinhoe's storm petrel * Tahiti petrel * Tristram's storm petrel * Wilson's storm Petrel * Zino's petrel * ashy storm petrel * black storm petrel * black-bellied storm petrel * black-capped petrel * black-winged petrel * blue petrel * cape petrel * common diving petrel * dark-rumped petrel * diving petrel * fork-tailed storm petrel * fulmarine petrel * gadfly petrel * giant petrel * great-winged petrel * grey-backed storm petrel * herald petrel * least storm petrel * mottled petrel * northern giant petrel * ringed storm petrel * snow petrel * soft-plumaged petrel * southern giant petrel * storm petrel * wedge-rumped storm petrel * white-bellied storm petrel * white-chinned petrel * white-faced storm petrel * white-headed petrel * white-necked petrel * white-vented storm petrel

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * (Procellariiformes) * (Procellariiformes)

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    petrify

    English

    Verb

  • To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Kirwan
    • a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves
  • To produce rigidity akin to stone.
  • To immobilize with fright.
  • To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
  • (figurative) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Dryden
    • Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief.
  • (figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Alexander Pope)
    • petrify a genius to a dunce
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (George Eliot)
    • A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.

    Synonyms

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    Related terms

    * petrifaction