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Soar vs Hoar - What's the difference?

soar | hoar |

As a proper noun soar

is (label) a river in england tributary to the trent.

As a noun hoar is

a white or greyish-white colour.

As an adjective hoar is

of a white or greyish-white colour.

As a verb hoar is

(obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty.

soar

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to fly aloft with little effort, as a bird.
  • When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled. .
  • to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
  • to remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
  • to rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
  • The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.
  • (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
  • Where the deep transported mind may soar . .
    Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of soaring.
  • This apparent soar of the hooded falcon. .
  • An upward flight.
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    hoar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A white or greyish-white colour.
  • (BDCADC)
  • Hoariness; antiquity.
  • * Burke
  • Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  • * Spenser
  • hoar waters
  • (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
  • * 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
  • This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
    Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
    Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
    Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms.
  • * Byron
  • old trees with trunks all hoar
  • (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
  • * 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
  • But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

    Derived terms

    * hoarfrost * hoary * hoared

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
  • * 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
  • But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

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