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Tenace vs Tenacle - What's the difference?

tenace | tenacle |

As nouns the difference between tenace and tenacle

is that tenace is an interrupted sequence of high cards of the same suit, such as the king and jack or the ace and queen while tenacle is a stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces.

tenace

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (bridge) An interrupted sequence of high cards of the same suit, such as the king and jack or the ace and queen.

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    * [http://www.bridgeguys.com/Conventions/Definitions.html]

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    tenacle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces.
  • * 1658': And ''Ivy'' divided from the root, we have observed to live some years, by the cirrous parts commonly conceived but as '''tenacles and holdfasts unto it. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 198)