Wedding vs Weed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between wedding and weed

is that wedding is present participle of lang=en while weed is to remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

As nouns the difference between wedding and weed

is that wedding is marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage while weed is a plant.

wedding

English

(wikipedia wedding)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wedding, weddynge, from (etyl) . Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.

Verb

(head)

* 1885 , , Volume 14,

Accordingly the Prince, accepting her largesse, sought the King to whom he had pledged his parents (and they were still with him in all weal and welfare) and going in to him made his salam and kissed ground and told him the whole tale of the past and the conditions of death or marriage he had made with the King's daughter and of his wedding her after overcoming her in contention.

Noun

(en noun)

Marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.

Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."

* 1858 , ,

Simple and brief was the wedding , as that of Ruth and of Boaz.

* 1909 , , Chapter XXIV,

Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom.

* 1922', ,

After the wedding there was singing and concertina-playing in the laundry till late evening.

Joining of two or more parts.

The wedding of our three companies took place last week.

* 1900 , Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon , 2005 facsimile edition, page 56,

That wedding of the fur companies is historic.

* 1991 , Richard M. Merelman, Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States , page 162,

Significantly, Grand Metropolitan elaborates upon the wedding of tradition and consumer narcissim that is the distinctively British version of private-sector collective representations;.

* 2000 , Benton E. Gup, New Financial Architecture: Banking Regulation in the 21st Century , page 221,

The wedding of commercial with universal banking would result in more careful project evaluation and selection and a closer monitoring of existing loans.

* 2002 , Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff, Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 , page 176,

The wedding of black brass bands and orchestras to jubilee concert companies was a consolidation that favored both promoters and musicians.

Derived terms

* * blood wedding * destination wedding * penny wedding * wedding band * wedding gift * wedding ring * wedding bells * wedding breakfast * wedding cake * wedding day * wedding dress * wedding finger * wedding gown * wedding party * wedding planner * wedding reception * wedding vow * weddingzilla

Etymology 2

Conversion of (wedding) (noun) to verb.

Verb

(en verb)
To participate in a wedding.

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Usage notes

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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.

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, 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
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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)

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