Thwart vs Fool - What's the difference?
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To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
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, title= (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
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(nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
(nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
* Milton
(figurative) Perverse; crossgrained.
Obliquely; transversely; athwart.
(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
* Franklin
(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
* Milton
* 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
(cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.
A particular card in a tarot deck.
To trick; to make a fool of someone.
To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
* Dryden
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Thwart is a related term of fool.
As verbs the difference between thwart and fool
is that thwart is to prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate while fool is to trick; to make a fool of someone.As nouns the difference between thwart and fool
is that thwart is (nautical) a brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail while fool is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence.As an adjective thwart
is situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.As an adverb thwart
is obliquely; transversely; athwart.thwart
English
Verb
(en verb)- The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
citation, passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
Arsenal 1-0 Everton, passage=Everton were now firmly on the back foot and it required some sharp work from Johnny Heitinga and Phil Jagielka to thwart Walcott and Thomas Vermaelen.}}
- Swift as a shooting star / In autumn thwarts the night.
Synonyms
* See also * foil, frustrate, impede, spoilDerived terms
* athwart * athwartships * thwarter * thwartsomeNoun
(en noun)- A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart .
- The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
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Adverb
(-)- (Milton)
References
fool
English
Noun
(en noun)- You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
- The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .
- Can they think me their fool or jester?
- I'm a fool for the city.
- an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool
Synonyms
* (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshiteVerb
- Is this a time for fooling ?