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Vine vs Weed - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between vine and weed

is that vine is the climbing plant that produces grapes while weed is a plant.

As a verb weed is

to remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

vine

English

Noun

(wikipedia vine) (en noun)
  • the climbing plant that produces grapes
  • any plant of the genus Vitis
  • (US) by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant
  • Synonyms

    * (climbing plant that produces grapes) grapevine * (any climbing or trailing plant) climber (UK) * (covered with vines) ivied

    Derived terms

    * Alleghany vine, Allegheny vine * American vine * arbor vine * balloon vine * Barbados-gooseberry vine * bean vine * bittervine * black-eyed Susan vine * black vine * black vine weevil * buckwheat vine * Burdekin vine * calabar-bean vine * canary vine * canarybird vine * cantaloupe vine * caustic vine * chalice vine * Chilean potato vine * China fleece vine * Chinese matrimony vine * Chinese trumpet vine * cinnamon vine * climbing vine * clockvine * common grape vine * common matrimony vine * condor vine * coral vine * corkscrew vine * cow itch vine * cross vine, cross-vine * cubeb vine * cucumber vine * cup-and-saucer vine * cypress vine * deer vine * die on the vine * dwell under one's vine and fig-tree * Easter lily vine * elephant's-vine * goa bean vine * gourd vine * granadilla vine * grapevine * groundnut vine * guinea gold vine * Harvey's vine * hemp-vine, hempvine * hop vine, hop-vine, hopvine * Hottentot bread vine * hungry vine * india-rubber vine * Isle of Wight vine * jade vine * kangaroo vine * kiwi vine * kudzu vine * lace-flower vine * lawyer vine * lemon vine * link vine * love vine * Madeira vine * matrimony vine, matrimony-vine * melon vine * Mexican ivy vine * Mexican vine * mignonette vine * milk vine * negro vine * old vines * oriental staff vine * partridge-vine * passionflower vine * peanut vine * pea vine * pepper vine, pepper-vine * pipe vine, pipevine * poison vine * potato vine * prairie gourd vine * pumpkin vine * puncture vine * quarter-vine * railroad vine * rattan vine * red-bead vine * rubber vine * redvine * Russian vine * sand vine * scrub vine * seven-year vine * silk vine * silver lace vine, silver-lace vine * silver vine, silvervine * snail vine * snake vine * soapberry vine * sorrel vine * squash vine * squash vine borer * squaw vine * staff vine * strainer vine * strawberry vine * summer squash vine * sweet melon vine * sweet potato vine * Tangier peavine * tara vine * tie vine * trumpet vine, trumpet-vine * Uruguay potato vine * vase vine * vine apple * vine-bamboo * vine beetle * vine-bind * vine-black * vine borer * vine-bower * vine branch, vine-branch * vine cactus * vine-clad * vined * vine-disease * vine dragon * vine-dresser, vinedresser * vine-feeder * vine-fly * vine forester * vine fretter, vine-fretter * vine fruit * vine-fungus * vine-gall * vine gall-insect * vine-garden * vine-garth * vine-grower * vine-growing * vine grub, vine-grub * vine hawk moth * vine-hook * vine hopper * vine inchworm * vine-knife * vineland * vine-leaf * vineless * vinelet * vine-leek * vine louse, vine-louse * vine-man * vine maple * vine-master * vine mildew, vine-mildew * vine moth, vine-moth * vine of Sodom * vine-pear * vine-pest * vine-press * vine-prop * vine pull schemes * viner * vine-rake * vine-rod * vinery * vine sawfly, vine-sawfly * vine-scroll * vine-scrub * vine slug * vine snail, vine-snail * vine snake * vine sorrel * vine sphinx * vine spinach * vine-stock * vine-tree * vine-wand * vine-water * vine weevil, vine-weevil * vine-worm * vineyard * vining * Virginia vine, Virginian vine * watermelon vine * water vine, water-vine * wax vine * white potato vine * white vine * wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine * winter melon vine * wire vine * with-vine * wither on the vine * wonga vine * wood vine * yellow passionvine

    See also

    * kudzu

    Anagrams

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    weed

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant.
  • # (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • # (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
  • # Short for duckweed.
  • # Underbrush; low shrubs.
  • #* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
  • #* (1809-1892)
  • A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .
  • A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
  • # Marijuana.
  • # Tobacco.
  • # A cigar.
  • A horse unfit to breed from.
  • A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
  • A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
  • Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweed
    See also
    * grow like a weed * weeds

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
  • I weeded my flower bed.
    See also
    * weed out

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
  • (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
  • * 1599 ,
  • DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
    And then to Leonato's we will go.
    CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,
    Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
  • * 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
  • These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.
  • (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
  • He wore a weed on his hat.
  • (archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel
  • * Milton
  • In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

    Etymology 4

    From the verb wee.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wee)
  • References

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