What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Year vs Tear - What's the difference?

year | tear |

As nouns the difference between year and tear

is that year is the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference) while tear is a hole or break caused by tearing.

As a verb 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.

year

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) * (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia year) (en noun)
  • The time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
  • (by extension) The time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body.
  • A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
  • A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
  • (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
  • A level or grade in school or college.
  • The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

    • Synonyms

    * (one revolution of the Sun by the Earth) twelvemonth * (time to make one revolution by any body) anomalistic year, Gaussian year, sidereal year, tropical year * (period between set dates) calendar year, civil year, legal year * (specific uses) fiscal year, liturgical year, school year

    Derived terms

    * calendar year * civil year * dog year * donkey's years * fiscal year * gap year * golden years * in the year of our Lord * in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ * last year * leap year * legal year * liturgical year * on in years * school year * sidereal year * sunset years * the year dot * twilight years * yearbook * year by year * year-end * year-long * year of our Lord * year of our Lord Jesus Christ * -year-old * year-round * yearhundred * yearling * yearly * yesteryear

    Related terms

    * (smaller divisions) see'' , &c. * quarter, quarterly, season, seasonal * triannual * biannual, semiannual, twice-yearly * (roughly one year) quasi-annual * yearly, annual, per annum * (ages) See * biennium, biennial * triennium, triennial, trieterical * quadrennium, quadrennial * quinquennium, quinquenniad, quintennium, quinquennial, quintennial * sexennium, sexennial * septennium, septennial, septennary, septenniad, septenary, septenarian, septennian, septennual * octennium, octaeteris, octennial, octaeteric * novennium, novennial, enneaeteric, enneatic * decade, decennium, decadal, decennial * septendecennial * enneadecaeteris * vicennium, vicennial * tricennium, tricennial * century, yearhundred, centennial, centenary, centuried * bicentennial, bicentenary * tricentennial, tricentenary tercentennial, tercentenary * millennium, kiloyear (kyr), yearthousand, millennial * termillenary * megayear (Myr), mega-annum (Ma) * gigayear (Gyr), gigannum (Ga)

    See also

    * day * week * month

    Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

    * * * 1000 English basic words

    tear

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • 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
    • 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.
  • To injure as if by pulling apart.
  • To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
  • *
    • , title= 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.}}
  • 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.
    • Synonyms
    * (break) rend, rip * (remove by tearing) rip out, tear off, tear out
    Related terms
    * tearaway * tear apart * tear down * tear into * tear up * that's torn it * wear and tear * retear

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hole or break caused by tearing.
    • A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
    Derived terms
    * wear and tear

    Derived terms

    * tearsheet

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia tear) (en noun)
  • 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 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”. […]’.}}
  • 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
    • Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears .
  • That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  • * Milton
    • some melodious tear
    Derived terms
    {{der3 , crocodile tears , shed a tear , teardrop , tear duct , tearful , tear up , teary , two tears in a bucket }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce tears.
    • Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words English ergative verbs English heteronyms English irregular verbs English terms with multiple etymologies ----