Weird vs E - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between weird and e

is that weird is fate; destiny; luck while E is the illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA).

As an adjective weird

is connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

As a verb weird

is to destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

As a letter E is

: On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.

As a symbol E is

everyone.

weird

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)

Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

* Longfellow

Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.

* Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1 Scene 5

Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, 'Thane of Cawdor'; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!'

Having supernatural or preternatural power.

There was a weird light shining above the hill.

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

There are lots of weird people in this place.

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.

(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

Usage notes

* Weird is one of the most noted exceptions to the (I before E except after C) spelling heuristic.

Synonyms

* (having supernatural or preternatural power) eerie, uncanny * (unusually strange in character or behaviour) fremd, oddball, peculiar, whacko * (deviating from the normal) bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, strange * (of or pertaining to the Fates) fateful * See also

Derived terms

* weirdo * weirdly * weirdness * weird out

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.

* 1912 , , trans. Arthur S. Way (Heinemenn 1946, p. 361)

In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison / Shall she steal forth never again.

A prediction.

(obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.

(Sir Walter Scott)

That which comes to pass; a fact.

(archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified).

Synonyms

* (l)

Derived terms

* * weirdless

Verb

(en verb)

To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

To warn solemnly; adjure.

See weird out .

That joke really weirded me out.

Anagrams

* * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----

e

Translingual

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Letter

The fifth letter of the .

Symbol

(Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)

(label) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459

Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.

1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10^-6

close-mid front unrounded vowel

(l)

a'' ? ''e''''' = '''''e'' ? ''a'' = ''a

(label) electron

Synonyms

* (electron) * (identity element) , (chiefly matrices) (l)