velvet vs want

velvet

noun
  • 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. 

  • Money acquired by gambling. 

  • 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. 

want

noun
  • A desire, wish, longing. 

  • Poverty. 

  • Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt. 

  • A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. 

  • Lack, absence, deficiency. 

  • A mole (Talpa europea). 

verb
  • To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it. 

  • To desire (to experience desire); to wish. 

  • To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). 

  • To be advised to do something (compare should, ought). 

  • To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. 

  • To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. 

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