Tarry vs Temporin - What's the difference?
tarry | temporin |
To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn.
To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
A sojourn.
Resembling tar.
Covered with tar.
(protein) Any of a family of peptides isolated originally from the skin secretion of the , Rana temporaria .
A tarry secretion from the temporal ducts of a bull elephant during musth.
As nouns the difference between tarry and temporin
is that tarry is a sojourn while temporin is (protein) any of a family of peptides isolated originally from the skin secretion of the , rana temporaria .As a verb tarry
is to delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.As an adjective tarry
is resembling tar.tarry
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* (l) (Scotland)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tarien, .Verb
(en-verb)- It is true that the Messiah will come, though he may tarry . (
Hitchens
quoting translated Maimonides)
- He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.
- He plodded on, tarrying no further question.