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Veer vs Gird - What's the difference?

veer | gird |

In intransitive terms the difference between veer and gird

is that veer is to change direction or course suddenly; to swerve while gird is to jeer.

In transitive terms the difference between veer and gird

is that veer is to turn while gird is to jeer at.

As verbs the difference between veer and gird

is that veer is to let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out while gird is to bind with a flexible rope or cord.

As nouns the difference between veer and gird

is that veer is a turn or swerve; an instance of veering while gird is a sarcastic remark.

veer

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 12:
  • *:As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) virer.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
    • The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
  • * (rfdate), Dryden:
    • And as he leads, the following navy veers .
  • * (rfdate), Burke:
    • An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.}}
  • (of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).Bowditch 2002
  • (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
  • (nautical) To change direction into the wind; to ship.
  • To turn.
    • Antonyms
    * back * haul forward

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    gird

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
    • The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
  • To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
    • The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
    Our home is girt by sea... -
  • To prepare oneself for an action.
    • Related terms
    * girder * girdle * * girt * undergird

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sarcastic remark.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I thank thee for that gird , good Tranio.
  • A stroke with a rod or switch.
  • A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
  • * Tillotson
    • Conscience is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To jeer at.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
  • To jeer.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.

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    * English irregular verbs English terms with multiple etymologies