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Surfeit vs Jade - What's the difference?

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Jade is a synonym of surfeit.



In uncountable terms the difference between surfeit and jade

is that surfeit is overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating while jade is (gem) A semiprecious stone either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

As nouns the difference between surfeit and jade

is that surfeit is an excessive amount of something while jade is (gem) A semiprecious stone either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

As verbs the difference between surfeit and jade

is that surfeit is to fill to excess while jade is to tire, weary or fatigue.

As an adjective jade is

of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

As a proper noun Jade is

{{given name|female|from=English}}.

surfeit

English

Noun

  • (countable) An excessive amount of something.
    • A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
  • (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
  • (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
    • King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
  • * Bunyan
    • to prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels
  • Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
  • * Burke
    • Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit .
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • Now for similitudes in certain printed discourses, I think all herbalists, all stories of beasts, fowls, and fishes are rifled up, that they may come in multitudes to wait upon any of our conceits, which certainly is as absurd a surfeit to the ears as is possible.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "surfeit")

    Synonyms

    * (excessive amount of something) excess, glut, overabundance, superfluity, surplus * (overindulgence in food or drink) gluttony, overeating, overindulgence

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fill to excess.
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
  • *:You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
  • *:That hath to instrument this lower world
  • *:And what is in't,—the never-surfeited sea
  • *:Hath caused to belch up you;
  • To feed someone to excess.
    • She surfeited her children on sweets.
  • (reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess.
  • *1906 , O. Henry,
  • *:To the door of this, the twelfth house whose bell he had rung, came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.
  • (reflexive) To sicken from overindulgence.

    • Synonyms

    * (to fill to excess) fill, stuff * (to feed someone to excess) overfeed, stuff * (to overeat or feed to excess) indulge, overeat, overfeed * (to sicken from overindulgence) sicken

    Related terms

    * surfeiting * surfeitly * surfeitness * surfeitous

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    Anagrams

    * English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    jade

    English

    (wikipedia jade)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), error for earlier

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (senseid)(uncountable) A semiprecious stone either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=Lee A. Groat , title=Gemstones , volume=100, issue=2, page=128 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade .}}
  • A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
    • Derived terms
    {{der3, jade gate , jade green , jade plant , jade stalk , jadeite , pseudojade}}
    See also
    (other terms of interest) * californite * greenstone * nephrite * yulan *

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl), either a variant of (m)Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 1134942168, 2006) or merely influenced by it. .Per Thorson, ''Anglo-Norse studies: an inquiry into the Scandinavian elements in the modern English dialects'', volume 1 (1936), page 52: "Yad sb. Sc Nhb Lakel Yks Lan, also in forms ''yaad'', ''yaud'', ''yawd'', ''yoad'', ''yod(e)''.... [jad, o] 'a work-horse, a mare' etc. ON ''jalda'' 'made', Sw. dial. ''jäldä'', from Finnish ''elde'' (FT p. 319, Torp p. 156 fol.). Eng. ''jade'' is not related."''Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research'', page 18: "There is thus no etymological connection between ME. ''j?de'' MnE. ''jade'' and ME. ''jald'' MnE. dial. ''yaud etc. But the two words have influenced each other mutually, both formally and semantically." See (m) for more.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horse too old to be put to work.
  • A woman.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * (old horse) yaud

    Verb

    (jad)
  • To tire, weary or fatigue
  • * John Locke
    • The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
  • (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * jaded

    References

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