Tear vs Teen - What's the difference?
tear | teen |
To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
To injure as if by pulling apart.
To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
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, title= To make (an opening) with force or energy.
To remove by tearing.
To demolish
To become torn, especially accidentally.
To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
To smash or enter something with great force.
A hole or break caused by tearing.
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
* Dryden
That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
* Milton
(label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
*, III.5:
*:In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene , / As it an earthly Paradize had beene.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xxv:
*:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
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*:MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.
*1866 , (Algernon Swinburne), :
*:Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen ;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget
*1867 , (Matthew Arnold), A Southern Night :
*:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
*1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night), XXI:
*:That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne
As verbs the difference between tear and teen
is that tear is to rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate or tear can be to produce tears while teen is (obsolete) to excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure or teen can be (transitive|obsolete|provincial) to hedge or fence in; to enclose.As nouns the difference between tear and teen
is that tear is a hole or break caused by tearing or tear can be a drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation while teen is a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old or teen can be (label) grief, sorrow; suffering.tear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
Synonyms
* (break) rend, rip * (remove by tearing) rip out, tear off, tear outNoun
(en noun)- A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
Derived terms
* wear and tearDerived terms
* tearsheetEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia tear) (en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears .
- some melodious tear