Rescue vs Fescue - What's the difference?
rescue | fescue |
To save from any violence, danger or evil.
To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
To recover forcibly
To deliver by arms, notably from a siege
(figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 13
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An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
A liberation, freeing.
The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
A rescuee.
A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
* Milton
* 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon),
A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca .
An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
The style of a sundial.
To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
As a proper noun rescue
is a city in california (zip code 95672).As a noun fescue is
a straw, wire, stick, etc, used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.As a verb fescue is
to use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.rescue
English
Verb
(rescu) (transitive)- ''The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche
- to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
- Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
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Synonyms
* free, deliver, pull out of the fire, save the day * (to free from confinement) liberate, release * (to free from restraint) release, unshackle, untie * (to recover forcibly) recapture, retake * (to deliver by arms) liberate * (to rescue from evil or sin) redeem, saveAntonyms
* (all senses) abandon, ignore * endanger, imperil * (to free from confinement) enslave, incarcerate * (to free from restraint) bind, constrict, hamper, inhibit, obstruct, preclude * (to recover forcibly) kidnap * (to deliver by arms) arrest, capture * (to rescue from evil or sin) corrupt, depraveDerived terms
* rescuee * rescuerNoun
(en noun)- ''The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
- The dog proved a rescue with some behavior issues.
Usage notes
* Often used attributively as an adjective, e.g. "rescue equipment".Derived terms
* come to someone's rescue * rescue dog * rescue missionAnagrams
*fescue
English
Noun
(en noun)- to come under the fescue of an imprimatur
- ‘Now then,’ Mason rapping upon the Table’s Edge with a sinister-looking Fescue of Ebony, whose List of Uses simple Indication does not quite exhaust, whilst the Girls squirm pleasingly
- (Chapman)
Verb
(fescu)- (Milton)