Strawberry vs Emily - What's the difference?
strawberry | emily |
The juicy, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria .
Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
(colour) A dark pinkish red colour, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
(rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise or birthmark.
Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
Of a red colour.
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* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer),
* 1830 (Mary Russell Mitford), Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
* 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
* 2010 (Joanne Harris), blueeyedboy , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:
As a noun strawberry
is the juicy, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus fragaria .As an adjective strawberry
is containing or having the flavor of strawberries.As an initialism emily is
(us|politics) early money is like yeast (ie it "raises dough", or makes money): receiving many donations early in a political race helps to attract further donors.strawberry
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Noun
- They went to pick strawberries today.
- She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.
Adjective
(-)- I'd like a large strawberry shake.
- The strawberry lipstick makes her look younger.
Derived terms
* strawberry aldehyde * strawberry blonde * strawberry bush * strawberry mark * strawberry roan * strawberry shrub * strawberry tomato * strawberry tree * wild strawberrySee also
* * (wikipedia "strawberry")emily
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- I am thy mortal foe, and it am I
- That so hot loveth Emily the bright,
- That I would die here present in her sight.
- People will please their fancies, and every lady has her favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. - - - Emily', in which all womanly sweetness seems bound up - perhaps this is the effect of association of ideas - I have known so many charming ' Emilys
- This may have accounted for Emma's Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily , a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights , so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.
- Emily . Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours — whilst hers was that muted, dusky pink, like bubblegum, like roses —