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Polite vs Snood - What's the difference?

polite | snood |

As verbs the difference between polite and snood

is that polite is (obsolete|transitive) to polish; to refine; to render polite while snood is to keep the hair in place with a snood.

As an adjective polite

is well-mannered, civilized.

As a noun snood is

a band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in scotland and northern england by young unmarried women.

polite

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Well-mannered, civilized.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • He marries, bows at court, and grows polite .
  • * , chapter=4
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite .}}
  • (obsolete) Smooth, polished, burnished.
  • * (Isaac Newton)
    • rays of light falling on a polite surface

    Usage notes

    * The one-word comparative form (politer) and superlative form (politest) exist, but are less common than their two-word counterparts (term) and (term).

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * impolite * rude

    Derived terms

    * over-polite * politeness * polite society

    Related terms

    * polish

    Verb

    (polit)
  • (obsolete) To polish; to refine; to render polite.
    • (Ray)

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    snood

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.
  • A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 264:
    • serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks
  • The flap of red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
  • * 2000 , Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics , page 8
    • A fingerlike projection called a snood''''' hangs over the front of the beak. When the tom is alert, the ' snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the beak.
  • A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
  • A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "snood")

    Coordinate terms

    * (flap of skin on an animal) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle

    Hypernyms

    * (hairnet) hairnet

    Hyponyms

    * (hairnet) shpitzel

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep the hair in place with a snood.
  • * 1792 , (Robert Burns), "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)
    • Janet has kilted her green kirtle
    A little aboon her knee,
    And she has snooded her yellow hair
    A little aboon her bree,