Pain vs Sour - What's the difference?
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(countable, and, uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
(countable) An annoying person or thing.
(uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
Labour; effort; pains.
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
(obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
* Francis Bacon
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Tasting or smelling rancid.
Peevish or bad-tempered.
* Shakespeare
(of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
* Shakespeare
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The sensation of a sour taste.
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
(label) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
(label) To make sour.
(label) To become sour.
* Jonathan Swift
(label) To make disenchanted.
* Shakespeare
(label) To become disenchanted.
(label) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
In transitive terms the difference between pain and sour
is that pain is to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve while sour is to make (soil) cold and unproductive.As a proper noun Pain
is an English surname, variant of Paine.As an adjective sour is
having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.pain
English
Noun
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- Your mother is a right pain .
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
- We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him. — Bacon
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.Synonyms
* (an annoying person or thing) pest * See alsoAntonyms
* pleasureHyponyms
* agony * anguish * pang * neuropathic pain * nociceptive pain * phantom pain * psychogenic painDerived terms
* pain in the arse * pain in the ass * pain in the back * pain in the bum * pain in the butt * pain in the neck * painkiller * painyVerb
(en verb)- The wound pained him.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.
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* 1000 English basic words ----sour
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) sowrAdjective
(er)- All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
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- He was a scholar / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
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- sour adversity
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Derived terms
* laundry sourVerb
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours .
- To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
- (Mortimer)