Percher vs. Soul — What's the Difference?

One that perches.

In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psýkhein, "to breathe", cf.

A bird whose feet are adapted for perching.

The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.

One who fishes for perch.

Emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance

One that perches.

The essence or embodiment of a specified quality

A bird that is perching or that regularly perches.

A part of humans regarded as immaterial, immortal, separable from the body at death, capable of moral judgment, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.

Any of various tropical and temperate dragonflies of the genus Diplacodes.

This part of a human when disembodied after death.

(textiles) An inspector of cloth before finishing.

In Aristotelian philosophy, an animating or vital principle inherent in living things and endowing them in various degrees with the potential to grow and reproduce, to move and respond to stimuli (as in the case of animals), and to think rationally (as in the case of humans).

A large candle, especially on an altar

A human

One who, or that which, perches.

A person considered as the embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification

One of the Insessores.

A person's emotional or moral nature

A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar.

The central or integral part; the vital core

A person situated on a perch

A sense of emotional strength or spiritual vitality held to derive from black and especially African American cultural experience, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.

A bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists

Strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, performer, or artist

Soul music.

The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.

The spirit or essence of anything.

Life, energy, vigor.

(music) Soul music.

A person, especially as one among many.

An individual life.

(math) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

To endow with a soul or mind.

To beg on All Soul's Day.

(obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

Sole.

By or for African-Americans, or characteristic of their culture; as, soul music; soul newspapers; soul food.

To afford suitable sustenance.

To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; - sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; - sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; - sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

A human being; a person; - a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

A pure or disembodied spirit.

A perceived shared community and awareness among African-Americans.

Soul music.

The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

A human being;

Deep feeling or emotion

The human embodiment of something;

A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s;