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soviet | scud |

As nouns the difference between soviet and scud

is that soviet is a form of governing council in the former Soviet Union while scud is the act of scudding.

As adjectives the difference between soviet and scud

is that soviet is pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council) while scud is naked.

As proper nouns the difference between soviet and scud

is that soviet is any of the governing workers' councils in the Soviet Union while Scud is a Soviet-developed ballistic missile.

As a verb scud is

to race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).

soviet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A form of governing council in the former Soviet Union.
  • * 2005 , , The People's Act of Love , Canongate 2006, p. 230:
    • Kratochvil, Jedlicka, Safar, Kubes and Vasata, who always took an interest in politics, set up a soviet in the last wagon and uncoupled it from the rest of the train in the night.
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 184:
    • Workers' committees were forming embryo soviets , soldiers' and sailors' collectives had whole ships and regiments under their temporary command, landless workers in the countryside were taking over abandoned farms and properties.
  • (historical) The main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union imposed in the Bolshevik in the former imperial Russia.

    • Related terms

    * Soviet Republic * Supreme Soviet

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
  • Relating to the ideology, culture or politics of the Soviet Union.
  • * 1935 , Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey , page 129
    • An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.
  • * 1947 , Washington Education Association, Washington Education Journal
    • Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational [....]
  • * 1991 , "Whatchamacallit", in Boston Globe , Aug 27, 1991
    • The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.
  • * 2004 , "M&S coach Rose makes his pitch", in Times Online , Nov 14, 2004
    • "It felt very soviet , very intimidating", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.
  • * 2005 , Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 , page 575
    • [...] that has been enlarged most quickly and widely is the very soviet region newly created in northern Sichuan.
  • * 2006 , Kate Transchel, ''Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural ..., page 136
    • One tactic was to become more "soviet" than vanguard workers by enthusiastically participating in the regime's productivity campaigns such as shock work,
  • * 2006 , SG Inge-Vechtomov, "From the Mutation Theory to the Theory of the Mutation Process", in NATO Security through Science Series B
    • Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.
  • * 2007 , Comment on Fred Hiatt, "A Soviet Memorial -- and Mind-Set: How far Russia has regressed became shockingly evident last week when Vladimir Putin's Russia unleashed a barrage against neighboring Estonia.", Washington Post , May 7, 2007
    • There are 3 kinds of Russian speakers in Estonia: a Those that have taken out Estonian Citizenship, b Those that took out Russian citizenship and are therefore loyal to Russia, c those that have not taken either citizenship and are still very soviet in mindstate.

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    scud

    English

    Alternative forms

    * skud (dialectal sense only)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, Scotland) Naked.

    • Verb

    (scudd)
  • To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
  • * I. Taylor
    • the first Nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primæval oceans
  • * Beaconsfield
    • The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
    • During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in
  • (ambitransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
  • (Northumbria) To hit.
  • (Northumbria) To speed.
  • (Northumbria) To skim.

    • References

    * * . Geordie English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of scudding.
  • Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face
  • A gust of wind.
  • (Bristol) A scab on a wound.
  • A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
  • Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
  • (slang, Scotland) Pornography.
  • (slang, Scotland) Irn-Bru.
    • A bottle of Scud