Soon vs Zoon - What's the difference?
soon | zoon |
Occurring within a short time, or quickly.
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Within a short time; quickly.
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Readily; willingly; used with would , or some other word expressing will.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
(biology):
# An animal which is the sole product of a single egg.
# Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.
As an adjective soon
is occurring within a short time, or quickly.As an adverb soon
is immediately, instantly.As a noun zoön is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.soon
English
(wikipedia soon)Adjective
(er)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
Adverb
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese
- How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
- I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.
Derived terms
* get well soon * sooner or later * soon enough * soonish * too soonStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----zoon
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en-noun)Quotations
* 1864 , (Herbert Spencer), (Principles of Biology) ,page 205, §?73 (1868 reprint; D. Appleton & Co.) *: [… A] zoological individual is constituted either by any such single animal as a mammal or bird, which may properly claim the title of a zoon'' , or by any such group of animals as the numerous ''Medusæ'' that have been developed from the same egg, which are to be severally distinguished as ''zooids .