Straw vs Jute - What's the difference?
straw | jute |
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
(countable) A drinking straw.
a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
*XIX c. , recorded by Francis James Child,
*:‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw ,
*:Nor all thine arrows to boot;
*:If I get a knop upon thy bare scop,
*:Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
*1857 , Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers :
*:He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.
*1881 , :
*:To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw .
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plant, , used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.
The plants from which this fibre is obtained.
As nouns the difference between straw and jute
is that straw is a dried stalk of a cereal plant while jute is the coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plant, species: Corchorus olitorius, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.As an adjective straw
is made of straw.As a proper noun Straw
is {{surname|from=nicknames}.straw
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* * strawberryAdjective
(-)- straw hat