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Scabbard vs Autobiography - What's the difference?

scabbard | autobiography |

As nouns the difference between scabbard and autobiography

is that scabbard is (senseid) the sheath of a sword while autobiography is a self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

As a verb scabbard

is to put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.

scabbard

English

(wikipedia scabbard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid) The sheath of a sword.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
    • I had had to discard my rifle before I commenced the rapid descent of the cliff, so that now I was armed only with a hunting knife, and this I whipped from its scabbard as Kho leaped toward me.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.
  • * Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.

    • References

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    autobiography

    English

    (wikipedia autobiography)

    Noun

  • A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
  • * (Samuel Clemens)
    • Autobiography
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XI , passage=Here I was interrupted, as I'm so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeoman's Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography .}}

    Synonyms

    * memoir

    Antonyms

    * heterobiography

    Derived terms

    * autobiographical, autobiographically

    Related terms

    * biography