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Weep vs Leek - What's the difference?

weep | leek |

As nouns the difference between weep and leek

is that weep is the lapwing; the wipe while leek is .

As a verb weep

is to cry; shed tears.

weep

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • To cry; shed tears.
  • * Longfellow
  • They wept together in silence.
  • To lament; to complain.
  • * Bible, Numbers xi. 13
  • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
  • (medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
  • To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  • a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
  • * Shakespeare
  • The blood weeps from my heart.
  • To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
  • (obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
  • * Prior
  • Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * weep in one's beer * weepy * weeping willow

    Etymology 2

    Imitative of its cry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lapwing; the wipe.
  • leek

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum , of the lily family, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
  • Any of several species of Allium , broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.
  • Synonyms

    * scallion (''US, Scotland ), garden leek, broadleaf wild leek

    Derived terms

    * (broadleaf wild leek) - Allium ampeloprasum , * (narrowleaf wild leek) - * (garden leek) - Allium ampeloprasum * (sand leek) - * (threecorner leek) - * houseleek - Sempervivum

    See also

    * garlic

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