Rill vs Frill - What's the difference?
rill | frill |
A very small brook; a streamlet.
* 1797 , :
(planetology)
A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
(photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
A luxury.
Something extraneous added for effect.
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To make something into a frill.
To become wrinkled.
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
To shake or shiver as with cold.
As nouns the difference between rill and frill
is that rill is furrow, groove while frill is a strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.As a verb frill is
to make something into a frill.rill
English
Noun
(wikipedia rill) (en noun)- So twice five miles of fertile ground
- With walls and towers were girdled round:
- And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills ,
- Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
- And here were forests ancient as the hills,
- Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
frill
English
Noun
(en noun)- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills , ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
See also
* jabotVerb
(en verb)- to frill a cap
- The hawk frills .
- (Johnson)