Spruce vs Sprue - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between spruce and sprue is that spruce is (obsolete) prussia while sprue is sprue (all senses).
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
spruce English
Noun
( en-noun)
Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea , found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
(uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
(used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
- That spruce table is beautiful!
(obsolete) Prussia leather; pruce.
* E. Phillips
- Spruce , a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather.
See also
* (Spruce)
* (Picea)
Adjective
( er)
(comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
* 1919 ,
- He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.
* 2012 , The Economist, 13th Oct 2012, Plessey returns: Chips with everything
- The two clean rooms, where chips are made, are sprucer than a hospital theatre.
Verb
(spruc)
To arrange neatly; tidy up.
) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
To tease.
Derived terms
* (l)
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sprue English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) spruw, sprouw .
Noun
( en noun)
(medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.
Derived terms
* celiac sprue
Etymology 2
Noun
( en noun)
(founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
(founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.
See also
* flash
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