Brood vs. Clutch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Brood and Clutch
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Brood
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together.
Clutch
A clutch is a mechanical device that engages and disengages power transmission, especially from a drive shaft (driving shaft) to a driven shaft. In the simplest application, clutches connect and disconnect two rotating shafts (drive shafts or line shafts).
Brood
The children in one family.
Clutch
To grasp and hold tightly
A child clutching a blanket.
Brood
To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry
Brooded about his future.
Brooded over the insult for several days.
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Clutch
To seize; snatch
Clutched the banana from my hand.
Brood
To be depressed
All he seemed to do was sit and brood.
Clutch
To attempt to grasp or seize
Clutch at a life raft.
Brood
To sit on or hatch eggs.
Clutch
To engage or disengage a motor vehicle's clutch.
Brood
To protect developing eggs or young.
Clutch
To hatch (chicks).
Brood
To hover envelopingly; hang
Mist brooded over the moor.
Clutch
A hand, claw, talon, or paw in the act of grasping.
Brood
To think about (something) persistently or moodily
Brooded that her work might come to nothing.
Clutch
A tight grasp.
Brood
To sit on or hatch (eggs).
Clutch
Often clutches Control or power
Caught in the clutches of sin.
Brood
To protect (developing eggs or young).
Clutch
A device for gripping and holding.
Brood
Kept for breeding
A brood hen.
Clutch
Any of various devices for engaging and disengaging two working parts of a shaft or of a shaft and a driving mechanism.
Brood
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
Clutch
The apparatus, such as a lever or pedal, that activates one of these devices.
Brood
(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
Clutch
A tense, critical situation
Came through in the clutch.
Brood
The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
Clutch
A small, strapless purse that is carried in the hand.
Brood
The children in one family; offspring.
Clutch
The complete set of eggs produced or incubated at one time.
Brood
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Clutch
A brood of chickens.
Brood
Parentage.
Clutch
A group; a bunch.
Brood
(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Clutch
Being or occurring in a tense or critical situation
Won the championship by sinking a clutch putt.
Brood
(of animals) Kept or reared for breeding.
Brood ducks
A brood mare
Clutch
Tending to be successful in tense or critical situations
The coach relied on her clutch pitcher.
Brood
(transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
Clutch
To seize, as though with claws.
To clutch power
Brood
(transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
Clutch
To grip or grasp tightly.
She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.
Brood
(intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
Clutch
(video games) To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
Brood
(intransitive) To be bred.
Clutch
To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
Brood
The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
A hen followed by a brood of ducks.
Clutch
(transitive) To hatch.
Brood
The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood.
Clutch
The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
Brood
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Flocks of the airy brood,(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
Clutch
(by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
Brood
Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Clutch
A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
Brood
Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Clutch
The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
Brood
Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
Clutch
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
Brood
To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
Clutch
A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. Clutch (pin fastener).}}
Brood
To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; - usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
Brooding on unprofitable gold.
Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
Clutch
A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
Brood
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
Clutch
A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
Brood
To cherish with care.
Clutch
A group or bunch (of people or things).
Brood
To think anxiously or moodily upon.
You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.
Clutch
(US) An important or critical situation.
Brood
The young of an animal cared for at one time
Clutch
A difficult maneuver
Brood
Think moodily or anxiously about something
Clutch
Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
Brood
Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;
The terrible vision brooded over her all day long
Clutch
A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.
An expiring clutch at popularity.
But Age, with his stealing steps,Hath clawed me in his clutch.
Brood
Be in a huff and display one's displeasure;
She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted
Clutch
The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; - often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.
I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.
Brood
Be in a huff; be silent or sullen
Clutch
A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.
Brood
Sit on (eggs);
Birds brood
The female covers the eggs
Clutch
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
Clutch
The nest complement of eggs of a bird.
Clutch
To seize, clasp, or grip with the hand, hands, or claws; - often figuratively; as, to clutch power.
A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . ?Come, let me clutch thee.
Clutch
To close tightly; to clinch.
Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.
Clutch
To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; - often followed by at.
Clutch
To become too tense or frightened to perform properly; used sometimes with up; as, he clutched up on the exam.
Clutch
The act of grasping;
He released his clasp on my arm
He has a strong grip for an old man
She kept a firm hold on the railing
Clutch
A tense critical situation;
He is a good man in the clutch
Clutch
A number of birds hatched at the same time
Clutch
A collection of things or persons to be handled together
Clutch
A pedal that operates a clutch
Clutch
A coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism
Clutch
Take hold of; grab;
The salesclerk quickly seized the money on the counter
She clutched her purse
The mother seized her child by the arm
Birds of prey often seize small mammals
Clutch
Hold firmly, usually with one's hands;
She clutched my arm when she got scared
Clutch
Affect;
Fear seized the prisoners
The patient was seized with unberable pains
He was seized with a dreadful disease
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