Ran vs Wan - What's the difference?
ran | wan |
(run)
(nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
Pale, sickly-looking.
* Spenser
* Longfellow
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Dim, faint.
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Bland, uninterested.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) (win)
In obsolete terms the difference between ran and wan
is that ran is open robbery while wan is past tense of win.As verbs the difference between ran and wan
is that ran is simple past of run while wan is past tense of win.As nouns the difference between ran and wan
is that ran is yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch while wan is the quality of being wan; wanness.As a proper noun RAN
is Royal Australian Navy.As an adjective wan is
pale, sickly-looking.ran
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Noun
(-)Etymology 3
(etyl) ranStatistics
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* * English irregular simple past forms ----wan
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(wanner)- Sad to view, his visage pale and wan .
- the wan moon overhead
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- A wan expression
Noun
(-)- Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.