Roiled vs Moiled - What's the difference?
roiled | moiled |
(roil)
To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of
* To roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles
* To roil a spring.
To annoy; to make someone angry.
* R. North
To bubble, seethe.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 (obsolete) To wander; to roam.
(obsolete, UK, dialect, intransitive) To romp.
(moil)
To toil, to work hard.
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
* {{quote-book, passage=There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
, author=Robert W. Service
, title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
, chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee)
, year=1907}}
To churn continually.
Hard work.
Confusion, turmoil.
A spot; a defilement.
* (rfdate) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
(glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
(glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
(glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
As verbs the difference between roiled and moiled
is that roiled is (roil) while moiled is (moil).roiled
English
Verb
(head)roil
English
Verb
(en verb)- That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.
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- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* irritateAnagrams
* *moiled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*moil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'.Verb
(en verb)- Moil not too much under ground.
- Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Noun
- The moil of death upon them.