PAIRS AND SNARES XXXI

The words or initialisms below can be easily confused. Can you give a simple definition that will show the difference between them?

1. LCD - LED

2. GEE - HAW - YAW

3. ENTENTE - DETENTE

4. PASTILLE - PASTICHE

5. MARMOT - MARMOSET

6.  MEW - MEOW - MIAU - MEWL - MEWS - MOUE   

Answers:

1. LCD - Least/Lowest Common Denominator

                Liquid Crystal Display

    LED - Light-emitting diode

 

2. GEE - Command for a right turn

    HAW - Command for a left turn (as to a horse)

    YAW - To veer from side to side (as a ship or space craft)

3. ENTENTE - Friendly understanding, Informal alliance (as between nations)

    DETENTE - Relaxing of tensions between nations through diplomacy

4. PASTILLE - A small candy or lozenge

    PASTICHE - An artistic work in the style of another work, artist, or period

5. MARMOT - A chunky, gregarious, burrowing rodent

    MARMOSET - A small Central and South American monkey

6. MEW and MEOW - The characteristic crying sound of a cat

    MIAU - Spanish for the English MEOW and pronounced the same

    MEWL - To whimper/cry feebly - as a baby

                    Also the sound of a cat when its cry sounds pathetic or forlorn  

    MEWS - Originally an enclosure for the King's hawks

                    They then were used as horse stables and coach houses.

                    Today they are row houses or apartments built above the stables,

                    or built to resemble them.

    MOUE - (moo) A pouting expression