Tine vs Trine - What's the difference?
tine | trine |
A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb
A small branch, especially on an antler or horn
(obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
* Spenser
To kindle; to set on fire.
* Dryden
* Spenser
(obsolete) To rage; to smart.
* Spenser
Triple, threefold.
(astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
* , III.1.2.ii:
A group of three things.
* Elizabeth Browning
An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.
(astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between tine and trine
is that tine is a spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb while trine is a group of three things.As verbs the difference between tine and trine
is that tine is to kindle; to set on fire while trine is to put in the aspect of a trine.As an adjective trine is
triple, threefold.tine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tind''. Cognate with German ''Zinne .Noun
(en noun)See also
* prong * tooth * toolEtymology 2
See .Noun
- Cruel winter's tine .
Etymology 3
See tind.Verb
(tin)- to tine the cloven wood
- coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd
- Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine .
Etymology 4
From (etyl) (modern (m)).Anagrams
* ----trine
English
Adjective
(-)- The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […].
Noun
(en noun)- A single trine of brazen tortoises.
Verb
- By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined .
