Porridge vs Pure - What's the difference?
porridge | pure |
A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
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(British slang) A prison sentence.
Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
* (1800-1859)
(senseid)Free of foreign material or pollutants.
* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
* Bible, v. 22
(label) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
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, title= (label) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
(label) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
(Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
As nouns the difference between porridge and pure
is that porridge is a type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley while pure is puree,.porridge
English
(wikipedia porridge)Noun
(en-noun)- Eat your porridge while it's hot!
- Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
See also
* gruel * oatmealpure
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
- A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
- Keep thyself pure .
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
Synonyms
* perfect * innocent * See alsoAntonyms
* impure, contaminated * (done for its own sake) appliedDerived terms
* pure finder * as pure as the driven snowAdverb
(en adverb)- You’re pure busy.
