Tassel vs Pendent - What's the difference?
tassel | pendent |
A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the tassel is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end. Tassels are normally decorative elements, and as such one often finds them attached, usually along the bottom hem, to garments, curtains or other hangings.
The male inflorescence of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewed to a book to be put between the pages.
(architecture) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
To adorn with .
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 37-39
To put forth a tassel or flower.
Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:
* 1986 , Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces
pending in various senses.
either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
(label) Projecting over something; overhanging.
As nouns the difference between tassel and pendent
is that tassel is a ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the tassel is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end tassels are normally decorative elements, and as such one often finds them attached, usually along the bottom hem, to garments, curtains or other hangings while pendent is .As a verb tassel
is to adorn with.As an adjective pendent is
dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.tassel
English
(wikipedia tassel)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(tassell)- […] gauzes of silver mist;
- Loop’d up with cords of twisted wreathed light,
- And tassell’d round with weeping meteors!
- Maize is a crop that tassels .
Anagrams
* ----pendent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders
- An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.