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Rind vs Rand - What's the difference?

rind | rand |

As nouns the difference between rind and rand

is that rind is tree bark while rand is the border of an area of land, especially marsh-land.

As verbs the difference between rind and rand

is that rind is to remove the rind from while rand is to rant; to storm.

As a proper noun Rand is

the Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg.

As an initialism RAND is

reasonable and nondiscriminatory; a standard used with respect to licensing.

rind

English

(wikipedia rind)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rinde, from Proto-Germanic *rind?. Cognate with (etyl) Rinde.

Noun

(en noun)
  • tree bark
  • A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sweetest nut hath sourest rind .
  • * Milton
  • Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.
  • The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind "
  • * 1939 , Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance , London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262:
  • Taking the money from a man when he's got his pants down. What are you, a doctor or a tailor's tout? Thirty bucks! If I figured you'd have the rind to touch me that much I'd have lashed them up with a pair of braces!
  • * 1940 , Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941 , published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, ISBN 9780612732810, p. 99:
  • April 9, 1940. Then one of our RAF customers had the rind to suggest that ‘you women ought to give up smoking for the duration you know’. This , when they have the alternative of smoking pipes which is not open to us, [...]
  • *
  • * 2010 , (David Stubbs), Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010 , O Books (Zero Books), ISBN 9781846944574, p. 12:
  • [About a football match.] Come the second half and the Trinidadians and Tobagans had the immortal rind to make excursions into the England half, the spectacle of which was deeply offensive to those whose memories extend to those happy days before 1962, when independence was unwisely conferred on this archipelago. Back in those days, a game like this would have presented little anxiety. Any goals scored by the Trinidadians, or Tobagans for that matter, would have been instantly become the property of the Crown and therefore added to England's tally. Glad times – 22 men working together for a common aim. However, such is the insolence of the modern age that these dark fellows dared approach the England penalty box, forelocks untugged, as if demanding instant entry to the Garrick club without having been put up by existing members.
    Derived terms
    * immortal rind * pork rind
    See also
    * peel * skin

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the rind from.
  • Etymology 2

    Cognate with Flemish (rijne), Low German ryn.

    Alternative forms

    * rynd * rine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    rand

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete except in dialects) the border of an area of land, especially marsh-land
  • (obsolete except in dialects) a strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • a strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe
  • (basket-making) a single rod woven in and out of the stakes
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) rand, from (etyl) rand'', from Germanic ''*randaz.'' Compare Etymology 1, and ''Rand .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • a rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
  • The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
  • See also

    *

    Etymology 3

    See rant.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To rant; to storm.
  • * J. Webster
  • I wept, and raved, randed , and railed.

    Anagrams

    * * * ----