Sock vs Globe - What's the difference?
sock | globe |
A knitted or woven covering for the foot
A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors
A violent blow, punch
A shortened version of (Internet) sock puppet
(firearms, informal) a gun sock
To hit or strike violently
To deliver a blow
A ploughshare.
Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
The planet Earth.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
(dated, or, Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
* 1920 , Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)
A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
* Milton
To become spherical
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As a noun sock
is a knitted or woven covering for the foot or sock can be a ploughshare.As a verb sock
is to hit or strike violently.As a proper noun globe is
a city in arizona.sock
English
(wikipedia sock)Etymology 1
* From (etyl) socke, sokke, sok, from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- "For enemies near are enemies known though socks are a bother he feels at last not alone "
RationalWiki
Derived terms
* bobby socks * knock somebody's socks off * sock hop * sock puppetReferences
Etymology 2
* Unknown, but compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch"). (en)Verb
(en verb)- They may let you off the first time, but the second time they'll sock it to you. — James Jones
Derived terms
* sock away * sock in * sockdolagerEtymology 3
(etyl) soc, (lena) soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.Noun
(en noun)globe
English
(wikipedia globe)Noun
(en noun)- the globe''' of the eye; the '''globe of a lamp
- (John Locke)
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe . Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
- Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.
- Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
