Ret vs Evacuate - What's the difference?
ret | evacuate |
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
To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
* Burke
To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
(figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
* Coleridge
To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
As a noun ret
is net.As a verb evacuate is
to leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.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
Derived terms
* retterEtymology 2
Abbreviation.Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* * ----evacuate
English
Verb
(evacuat)- The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
- The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
- The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
- Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.
- to evacuate a contract or marriage
- (Francis Bacon)