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Tuft vs Plume - What's the difference?

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Tuft is a related term of plume.


As verbs the difference between tuft and plume

is that tuft is to provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts while plume is .

As a noun tuft

is a bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc, held together at the base.

tuft

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
  • A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
  • A small clump of trees or bushes.
  • (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
  • (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
  • * T. Hughes
  • Several young tufts , and others of the faster men.

    Derived terms

    *tufthunting *tufthunter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
  • (Thomson)
  • To form into tufts.
  • To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.
  • To be formed into tufts.
  • plume

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
  • * Milton
  • wings of many a coloured plume
  • The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
  • A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
  • * Dryden
  • his high plume , that nodded o'er his head
  • A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
  • * Milton
  • ambitious to win from me some plume
  • An upward spray of water or mist.
  • (geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
  • (astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
  • A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
  • Derived terms

    * plume grass * plume moth * plume nutmeg

    Verb

    (plum)
  • To preen and arrange the feathers of.
  • * Washington Irving
  • pluming her wings among the breezy bowers
  • To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
  • He plumes himself on his skill.
    (South)
  • To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
  • (Francis Bacon)
    (Dryden)
  • To adorn with feathers or plumes.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Farewell the plumed troop.
  • To form a plume.
  • Smoke plumed from his pipe then slowly settled towards the floor.
  • To write; to pen.
  • *
  • We mention this observation, not with any view of pretending to account for so odd a behaviour, but lest some critic should hereafter plume himself on discovering it.