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Sac vs Swelling - What's the difference?

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Sac is a related term of swelling.


As nouns the difference between sac and swelling

is that sac is while swelling is the state of being swollen.

As a proper noun sac

is .

As a verb swelling is

.

sac

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sac.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
    • Derived terms
    * vocal sac

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of sacrifice.

    Verb

  • (senseid)(transitive, informal, games) To sacrifice.
    • Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.
    I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)(transitive, informal, games) A sacrifice.
    • Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.

    Etymology 3

    See sake, soc.

    Noun

  • (UK, legal, obsolete) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
    • (Cowell)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    swelling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being swollen.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge ; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}
  • Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.

    • See also

    * edema

    Verb

    (head)