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Brood vs. Clutch — What's the Difference?

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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