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Ratchet vs Degrade - What's the difference?

ratchet | degrade |

As verbs the difference between ratchet and degrade

is that ratchet is to cause to become incremented or decremented while degrade is .

As a noun ratchet

is a pawl, click or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

As an adjective ratchet

is (us|slang) ghetto (unseemly and indecorous).

ratchet

English

(wikipedia ratchet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pawl, click or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
  • A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
  • A ratchet wrench.
  • (analogous ) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-14
    • , author=Simon Jenkins, authorlink=Simon Jenkins , title=We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys , volume=188, issue=2, page=23 , date=2012-12-21 , magazine= citation , passage=The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to become incremented or decremented.
  • To increment or decrement.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US, slang) ghetto (unseemly and indecorous)

    • Anagrams

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    degrade

    English

    Verb

    (degrad)
  • To lower in value or social position.
    • Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.
  • * Palfrey
    • Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.
  • To reduce in quality or purity.
    • The DNA sample has degraded .
  • (geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

    • Derived terms

    * degradation