Yarn vs Tarn - What's the difference?
yarn | tarn |
(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
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, title= (Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
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As nouns the difference between yarn and tarn
is that yarn is a twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving while tarn is a small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.As a verb yarn
is to tell a story.As a proper noun Tarn is
one of the départements of Midi-Pyrénées, France (INSEE code 81.yarn
English
Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn , but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
Synonyms
* (story or tale) story, taleDerived terms
* yarn-beam * yarn-spinner * yarnwindleSee also
* hank * twineDerived terms
* yarnerAnagrams
* *tarn
English
Noun
(en noun)1,
- It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.