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Sap vs Sai - What's the difference?

sap | sai |

As nouns the difference between sap and sai

is that sap is the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition while sai is a handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts.

As a verb sap

is to strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

As an initialism SAP

is initialism of Scientific Advisory Panel|lang=en.

sap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

Noun

(wikipedia sap)
  • (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • (uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
    • Derived terms
    (terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tube

    Etymology 2

    Probably from sapling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
    • (rfimage)

    Verb

    (sapp)
  • (slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
    • Derived terms
    * sap fagot * sap roller * sapper

    Verb

    (sapp)
  • To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • * (rfdate)
    • Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
  • (military) To pierce with saps.
  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • * 1850 ,
    • Ring out the grief that saps the mind
  • To gradually weaken.
  • * to sap one’s conscience
  • To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
  • * (rfdate)
    • Both assaults carried on by sapping .

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    sai

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (sai)
  • A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts.

    • See also

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    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) sahi.

    Noun

  • sajou; capuchin
    • (Webster 1913)

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