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Sate vs Clog - What's the difference?

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Sate is a related term of clog.


As verbs the difference between sate and clog

is that sate is while clog is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

As a noun clog is

a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

sate

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From earlier sate, . More at (l).

Verb

(sat)
  • To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
    • At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated .
  • * Macaulay
    • crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
    Usage notes
    Used interchangeably with, though less common than, satiate.“ Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog
    Synonyms
    * satiate
    Related terms
    * satiate * satisfactory * saturate * surfeit

    References

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dated) (sit)
    • Quotations
    * (sit)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • satay

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    clog

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia clog)
  • A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
    • Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
  • A blockage.
    • The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
  • (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
  • * 1987 , :
    • Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
  • A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  • * Hudibras
    • As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
  • * Tennyson
    • A clog of lead was round my feet.
  • That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
  • * Burke
    • All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

    Derived terms

    * clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogs

    Verb

  • To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
    • Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
    The roads are clogged up with traffic.
  • To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  • * Dryden
    • The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
  • To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • * Addison
    • The commodities are clogged with impositions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.