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Thrid vs Thrip - What's the difference?

thrid | thrip |

As a verb thrid

is (archaic) (thread) or thrid can be (archaic) to pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.

As a noun thrip is

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thrid

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (thread)

    • Verb

    (thridd)
  • (archaic) To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair.
  • * J. R. Drake
    • And now he thrids the bramble bush.
  • * Tennyson
    • I began / To thrid the musky-circled mazes.
  • (archaic) To make or effect (a way or course) through something.
    • to thrid one's way through a wood

    Anagrams

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    thrip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1994 , M. D. Pathak, Zeyaur R. Khan, Insect Pests of Rice , page 47,
    • S.[Stenchaetothrips] biformis'' is also known as rice leaf thrip''', paddy '''thrip''', or oriental rice ' thrip .
  • * 2000 , Brian McAndrew, Niagara Parks Butterflies , page 49,
    • A pair of local pests, the thrip' and white fly, made their way into the greenhouse through the air vents and hitchhiked into the conservatory on plants. Without controls in place, each female ' thrip can reproduce 200 offspring every week.
  • * 2004 , Wendy Doucet, A Simple Plant Guide for Beginners and Maintenance Technicians , unnumbered page,
    • Thrip' are probably one of the hardest flies to actually see. The fecal deposits they leave on the underside of leaves are usually noticed long before the ' thrip itself.
  • * 2008 , Raymond A. Zilinskas, Chapter 7: Cuban Allegations of U.S. Biological Warfare: False Accusations and Their Impact on Attribution'', Anne Clunan, Peter Lavoy, Susan Martin (editors), ''Terrorism, War, or Disease?: Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons , page 154,
    • Nevertheless for the sake of discussion here, I posit a situation that engages experts and uses the thrip infestation as a hypothetical case study.

    References

    Oxford English Dictionary.