Ret vs Azimuth - What's the difference?
ret | azimuth |
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
An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.
The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
As nouns the difference between ret and azimuth
is that ret is net while azimuth is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.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