Difference between Grass and Weed

What is the difference between Grass and Weed?

Grass as a verb is to lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.). while Weed as a verb is to remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

Grass

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.). To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. A lawn. Marijuana. An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities. Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference. Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

Weed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.Short for duckweedMarijuana.Tobacco.A cigar.A horse unfit to breed from.A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.Underbrush; low shrubs.Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.A garment or piece of clothing.Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.widow's weeds Female mourning apparel

We hope you now know whether to use Grass or Weed in your sentence.

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