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Surd vs Sued - What's the difference?

surd | sued |

As a noun surd

is cheerfulness, alacrity, eagerness.

As a verb sued is

(sue).

surd

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (arithmetic) An irrational number, especially one expressed using the ? symbol.
  • (linguistics) A voiceless consonant.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Lacking the sense of hearing; deaf.
  • * Sir Thomas Brown
  • a surd generation
  • (obsolete) unheard
  • (Kenrick)
  • (math) Involving surds, or irrational numbers; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers.
  • a surd''' expression or quantity; a '''surd number
  • (phonetics) unvoiced; voiceless
  • Anagrams

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    sued

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sue)
  • Anagrams

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    sue

    English

    Verb

  • To follow.
  • * , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
  • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
  • though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
  • (label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
  • (label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  • To clean (the beak, etc.).
  • To leave high and dry on shore.
  • To court.
  • Derived terms

    * sue for peace

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