Ruffle vs Hem - What's the difference?
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Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.(w)
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Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur .
To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
* I. Taylor
* Sir W. Hamilton
* Dryden
* Tennyson
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
* Shakespeare
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
* Dryden
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir Walter Scott
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
* Tennyson
(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
* Chapman
An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
* Spectator
To make the sound expressed by the word hem ; to hesitate in speaking.
* Shakespeare
(sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
A rim or margin of something.
* Shakespeare
In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
(in sewing) To make a hem.
(transitive): To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
(transitive): To surround something or someone in a confining way.
Ruffle is a related term of hem.
As verbs the difference between ruffle and hem
is that ruffle is while hem is to make the sound expressed by the word hem ; to hesitate in speaking or hem can be (in sewing) to make a hem.As an interjection hem is
used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.As a noun hem is
an utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention or hem can be (sewing) the border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.As a pronoun hem is
.ruffle
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles , flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- to put the mind in a ruffle
Synonyms
* (strip of fabric) frill, furbelowVerb
(ruffl)- Ruffle the end of the cuff.
- The wind ruffled the papers.
- Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
- the fantastic revelries that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
- These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
- She smoothed the ruffled seas.
- But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
- The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle .
- On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.
- They would ruffle with jurors.
- gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery
- [The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.
- I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.
Derived terms
* rufflyhem
English
Etymology 1
A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)See also
* ahem * hawNoun
(en noun)- his morning hems
Verb
(hemm)- Hem , and stroke thy beard.
Derived terms
* hem and hawEtymology 2
From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hemm and related to Middle High German .Noun
(en noun)- hem of the sea