Tread vs Squash - What's the difference?
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To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
* Alexander Pope
* Milton
To step or walk upon.
To beat or press with the feet.
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Shakespeare
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 5
To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
(of a male bird) To copulate with.
(tread)
A step.
A manner of stepping.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) A way; a track or path.
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
* 1896 , (Bret Harte), Barker's Luck and Other Stories
(biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
The act of copulation in birds.
(fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
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(British) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
(obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
(obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
(obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
(intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
(countable) A plant and its fruit of five species of the genus Cucurbita , or gourd kind.
# Cucurbita maxima , including , and some varieties of pumpkins.
# .
# Cucurbita moschata , butternut squash, .
# Cucurbita pepo , most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
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The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
(obsolete, zoo, countable) Muskrat.
* Dampier
In transitive terms the difference between tread and squash
is that tread is to step or walk upon while squash is to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.As verbs the difference between tread and squash
is that tread is to step or walk (on or over something); to trample while squash is to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.As nouns the difference between tread and squash
is that tread is a step while squash is a sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.tread
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) treden, from (etyl) {{term, tredan, , to tread, step on, trample, traverse, pass over, enter upon, roam through , lang=ang}}, from (etyl) , Norwegian treda.Verb
- He trod back and forth wearily.
- Don't tread on the lawn.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread .
- ye that stately tread , or lowly creep
- Actors tread the boards.
- to tread''' a path; to '''tread''' land when too light; a well-'''trodden path
- I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.
- They have measured many a mile, / To tread a measure with you on this grass.
- Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- (Shakespeare)
- (Chaucer)
Usage notes
* "(term)" is not commonly used in the UK and is less common in the US as well. It is apparently used more often in (tread water). * (term) is sometimes used as a past and past participle, especially in the US.Derived terms
* betread * * tread water * untrod * treading on eggshellsUse of expression in delicate situations; be nice
Etymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread , / My heart would hear her and beat.
- (Shakespeare)
- The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.
- But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.
Synonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) runAntonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) rise, riserDerived terms
*See also
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
*References
squash
English
(wikipedia squash)Etymology 1
From (etyl) squachen, from (etyl) esquasser, + .Noun
(wikipedia squash)citation
- When I'm thirsty I drink squash ; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
- It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "squash")Derived terms
* squashable * squash ball * squash court * squash player * squash racketSee also
* racketballVerb
(es)- Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
- We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "squash")Derived terms
* squash up * squashy * squishEtymology 2
Shortening of askutasquash , (etyl) ("[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)"). (Cucurbita)Noun
- We ate squash and green beans.
Derived terms
* ) * (Coreidae) * opo squash (Lagenaria spp. ) * winter squash * summer squashEtymology 3
shortening of musquashNoun
(es)- The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.