Ren vs Ret - What's the difference?
ren | ret |
(anatomy) A kidney.
(lb) One's secret name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
* 1983 , Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings :
To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
* 1989 , (Keith Bosley), translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala , XLVIII:
* 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 621:
retired
As a verb ren
is to groan, moan.As a noun ret is
net.ren
English
(wikipedia ren)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ren.Noun
(es)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back.
Anagrams
* * ----ret
English
Etymology 1
Precise origin uncertain; perhaps related to Middle Dutch ).Verb
(rett)- the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].
- the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring