Trods vs Prods - What's the difference?
trods | prods |
(trod)
To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread
* 1813 , The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to the year 1803
*:Sir ; to me the noble lord seems to trod close in the foot-steps of his fellow-labourers in the ministerial vineyard, and u crow over us with the same reason
* 1833 , Timothy Flint, The history and geography of the Mississippi Valley
* 1866 , Fanny Fisher, Ainsworth's heir
*:They bore him to his chamber, where he lay all pale and tearless, like some broken reed, Some helpless shrub, all crushed and trodded down
* 1895 , Uchimura Kanzo, The Diary of a Japanese Convert
*:Yet alas! I see around me the trodding of the same old paths, each trying to excel the other how to ape the good old ministers who were "very much liked by their parishioners."
* 1962 , American Motorcyclist , February, page 16
*:Land of mystery and enchantment, continent of contrast and extremes, where adventure awaits those who dare to defy convention and choose to trod the unfamiliar path.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 23, author=Matt Weiland, title=Walker in the City, work=New York Times
, passage=Happily, he writes the way he walks: at a vigorous lope, both attentive to the varied soils of the ground he trods and curious about the dust and dandelions over the next hill. }}
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 18, author=Sonia Day, title=Nip that gardening zeal in the bud, work=Toronto Star
, passage=And avoid trodding on the inevitably wet soil around the base of the shrubs as you work. }}
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(prod)
To poke, to push, to touch.
To encourage, to prompt.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Michael Riordan
, title=Tackling Infinity
, volume=100, issue=1, page=86
, magazine=
A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
A poke.
A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
As verbs the difference between trods and prods
is that trods is third-person singular of trod while prods is third-person singular of prod.As a noun Prods is
plural of Prod|lang=en.trods
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Verb
(head)trod
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Etymology 2
Verb
(trodd)- It renders the paths, and the banks of the bayous in that region almost impassable in autumn, until the cattle have trodded it down.
citation
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prods
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(head)Anagrams
* dropsprod
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(wikipedia prod)Verb
(prodd)citation, passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
Noun
(en noun)- "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.
- (Fairholt)