Rut vs Ruth - What's the difference?
rut | ruth |
(zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
to be in the annual rut
to have sexual intercourse
To mount or cover during copulation.
A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road
A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter)
A dull routine
To make a furrow
(archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
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* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre) , Chapter IV, 1859, New York, Harper & Brothers,
* 2011 , Turisas (Mathias Nygård),
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad)'', XLIV, 2005, ''The Works of A. E. Housman'' [1994, ''The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman ],
* ~1937 , J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
(obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress.
(obsolete) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.
As proper nouns the difference between rut and ruth
is that rut is , cognate to ruth while ruth is a book of the old testament and the hebrew tanakh.rut
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
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Etymology 2
16th century. Probably from (etyl) route ‘road’Noun
(en noun)- Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut .
Verb
(rutt)Anagrams
* * English terms with multiple etymologies ----ruth
English
Noun
(-)- It was my fortune to be at Rome'', upon a day that one ''Catena , a notorious high-way theefe, was executed: at his strangling no man of the companie seemed to be mooved to any ruth .
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- under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth .
Hunting Pirates
- Scum they are! —Foe of mankind!
- Clear the sea! —Show no ruth !
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- Now to your grave shall friend and stranger / With ruth and some with envy come.
- He mourned too late
- In ruth for the rending of the Round Table.
