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Straw vs Vinyl - What's the difference?

straw | vinyl |

As a proper noun straw

is .

As a noun vinyl is

vinyl.

straw

English

Noun

  • (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 .

    • Derived terms

    * * strawberry

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of straw.
    • straw hat
  • Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

    • Derived terms

    * cheese straw * drinking straw * draw the short straw * grasp at straws * jackstraw * the last straw * the final straw * make bricks without straw * man of straw * pine straw * silly straw * straw boss * straw buyer * straw hat * straw in the wind * straw man * straw mushroom * straw poll * the straw that broke the camel's back * straw that stirs the drink * straw vote * straw wine * strawboard * straw-coloured * strawflower * strawworm * windlestraw

    See also

    * balibuntal * buntal * corn dolly * etiolated * fescue * huarache * leghorn * paillasse * paillette * pallet * parabuntal * rick * sacaton * skep * stipule * stubble * zori *

    Anagrams

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    vinyl

    English

    Noun

  • (chemistry, uncountable) The univalent radical CH2=CH−, derived from ethylene
  • (countable) Any of various compounds and substances containing the vinyl radical, especially various tough, flexible, shiny plastics
  • (collectively, uncountable) Phonograph records as a medium
    • Many DJs prefer vinyl to CDs.

    Derived terms

    * * * * beta-chlorovinyldichloroarsine * bivinyl * butylvinyl * chlorovinyldichloroarsine * dimethylvinyl * dimethylvinylchloride * divinyl * ethylvinyl ether * gamma-vinyl GABA, gamma vinyl-gamma-aminobutyric acid * heavy vinyl * methyl vinyl ketone * methylvinyl ketone * naphthylvinylpyridine * n -nitrosomethylvinylamine * non-virgin vinyl * piece of vinyl * polyphenylene vinylene, * polyvinyl * rigid vinyl * soft vinyl * trichlorotrivinylarsine * Vinalon * vinylacetic acid * vinyl acetate * vinyl acetylene, vinylacetylene * vinyl alcohol * vinylate * vinylation * vinyl benzene, vinylbenzene * vinylbital * vinyl blank * vinyl bromide * vinyl carbinol * vinyl chloride * vinyl composition tile * vinyl copolymer * vinyl cyanide * vinyl emulation software * vinylene * vinyl ester, vinylester * vinyl ether * vinyl ethyl ether, vinylethyl ether * vinyl ethylene, vinylethylene * vinyl group * vinyl halide * vinylic * vinylidene * vinyl insert * Vinylite, vinylite * vinylogous * Vinylon, vinylon * vinyl plastic * vinyl polymer * vinyl radical * vinyl record * vinyl resin * vinyl siding * vinylstyrene * vinyltoluene * vinyl trichloride * vinyl village * vinyl vision * Vinyon * virgin vinyl

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (chemistry) containing the vinyl radical
  • Made of polyvinyl chloride.

    • Synonyms

    * (containing the vinyl radical ): vinylic

    Derived terms

    * See the Noun section above