Swerve vs Whisk - What's the difference?
swerve | whisk |
To stray; to wander; to rove.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
* Book of Common Prayer
* Clarendon
* Atterbury
To bend; to incline.
* Milton
To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
* Dryden
To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
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A quick, light sweeping motion.
A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
* Samuel Pepys
(archaic) An impertinent fellow.
To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
* J. Fletcher
In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
To move something rapidly and with no warning.
* Walpole
To move lightly and nimbly.
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(obsolete) The card game whist.
As verbs the difference between swerve and whisk
is that swerve is to stray; to wander; to rove while whisk is to move something with quick light sweeping motions.As a noun whisk is
a quick, light sweeping motion or whisk can be (obsolete) the card game whist.swerve
English
Verb
(swerv)- A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve .
- The point [of the sword] swerved .
- I swerve not from thy commandments.
- They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
- many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion
- The battle swerved .
- The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved .
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whisk
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) viskAccording to] eng. (vist laant fra nord. ) whisk, the English (certainly borrowed from Old Norse) whisk[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=whisk&resource=Webster's&quicksearch=on Etymology in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)- With a quick whisk , she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
- He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
- Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
- '' I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
- My wife in her new lace whisk .
- (Halliwell)
Verb
(en verb)- He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.
- I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.