Wring vs Wrist - What's the difference?
wring | wrist |
To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
* Bible, Judg. vi. 38
* Shakespeare
To obtain by force.
To hold tightly and press or twist.
* Francis Bacon
* Bible, Leviticus i. 15
To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.
To kill and animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.
* Shakespeare
To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
* Clarendon
* Addison
To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
* Whitgift
To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
* Shakespeare
* Hayward
(nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.
(anatomy) The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
(engineering) A stud or pin which forms a journal.
As a verb wring
is to squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.As a noun wrist is
(anatomy) the complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.wring
English
Verb
- You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry.
- He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.
- Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
- The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.
- Some of the patients waiting in the dentist's office were wringing their hands nervously.
- He said he'd wring my neck if I told his girlfriend.
- He wrung my hand enthusiastically when he found out we were related.
- The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
- The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head
- 'Tis all men's office to speak patience / To those that wring under the load of sorrow.
- Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.
- Didst thou taste but half the griefs / That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.
- How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?
- To wring the widow from her 'customed right.
- The merchant adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.
- to wring a mast
