West vs Wild - What's the difference?
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One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox.
Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
(meteorology) Of wind: from the west.
Of or pertaining to the west; western.
From the West; occidental.
Towards the west; westwards.
To move to the west; (of the sun) to set.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.prologue:
Untamed; not domesticated.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
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, title= (senseid) Unrestrained or uninhibited.
Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
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, title= Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
Enthusiastic.
Inaccurate.
Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
(nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
(mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Inaccurately; not on target.
The undomesticated state of a wild animal
(chiefly, in the plural) a wilderness
* 1730–1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
* 1989 , David E. Pitt, Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours , New York Times (April 22, 1989), page 1:
*:: ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding".
*:: "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...
In surname|from=middle english|dot= terms the difference between west and wild
is that west is for a newcomer from the west, or someone who lived to the west of a village while wild is for a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land.As proper nouns the difference between west and wild
is that west is the western]] world; the regions, primarily situated in the western [[hemisphere|hemisphere, whose culture is derived from europe while wild is for a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land.west
English
(wikipedia west)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* north-northwest * northwest * south-southwest * southwest * west by north * west by south * wester * westerly * western * westerner * westing * westward * westwardly * westwardsCoordinate terms
* (compass point) east, north, southAdjective
Adverb
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Foure times his place he shifted hath in sight, / And twice has risen, where he now doth West', / And ' wested twice, where he ought rise aright.
Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----wild
English
Adjective
(er)- Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
- The woods and desert caves, / With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown.
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- a wild roadstead
Antonyms
* (mathematics) tameDerived terms
* in the wild * walk on the wild side * wild allspice * wild and woolly * wild animal * wild balsam apple * wild basil * wild blueberry * wild boar * wild bugloss * wild camomile * wild card * wildcard * wildcarrot * wild cat * wildcat * wildcat strike * wildcatter * wild celery * wild cherry * wild child * wildcrafting * wild cumin * wild drake * wildebeest * wild elder * wilden * wilder * wilderness * wildest * wild-eyed * wildfire * wildflower * wildfowl * wild geranium * wild ginger * wild goose * wild goose chase * wild-goose chase * wild hyacinth * wilding * wild Irishman * wildish * wild land * wild licorice * wildlife * wildly * wild mammee * wild marjoram * wild mustard * wildness * wild oat * wild pieplant * wild pigeon * wild pink * wild pitch * wild plantain * wild plum * wild purslane * wild rice * wild rye * wild Spaniard * wild strawberry * wildstyle * wild turkey * wild vanilla * Wild West * wildwoodAdverb
(en adverb)- The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
Noun
(en noun)- After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild
- Thus every good his native wilds impart
- Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;
- And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise
- Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.
