interest vs velvet

interest

noun
  • The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. 

  • A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. 

  • An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor. 

  • Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance. 

  • Any excess over and above an exact equivalent 

  • The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively. 

  • Something or someone one is interested in. 

  • Attention that is given to or received from someone or something. 

verb
  • To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing. 

velvet

noun
  • Money acquired by gambling. 

  • The drug dextromethorphan. 

  • A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side. 

  • Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers. 

  • A female chinchilla; a sow. 

verb
  • To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers. 

  • to retract. 

  • To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture. 

  • To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying. 

  • To soften; to mitigate. 

adj
  • Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety. 

  • Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia. 

  • Made of velvet. 

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