Sad vs. Sap

Sadadjective

(heading) Emotionally negative.

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sadadjective

Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

‘She gets sad when he's away.’;

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sadadjective

Appearing sorrowful.

‘The puppy had a sad little face.’;

Sapnoun

Any juice.

Sadadjective

Causing sorrow; lamentable.

‘It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.’;

Sapnoun

(figurative) Vitality.

Sadadjective

Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.

‘That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.’;

Sapnoun

a naive person; a simpleton

Sadadjective

Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.

Sapnoun

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.

Sapnoun

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.

Sapverb

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.

Sapverb

To exhaust the vitality of.

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.

Sapverb

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Sadadjective

(slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

‘I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!’;

Sapverb

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Sadadjective

(dialect) Soggy (to refer to pastries).

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

‘sad bread’;

Sapverb

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Sadadjective

Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.

‘Yet of that art they can not waxen sad,For unto them it is a bitter sweet.’;

Sapverb

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

‘to sap one’s conscience’;

Sadadjective

Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

‘His hand, more sad than lump of lead.’; ‘Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad.’;

Sapverb

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Sadadjective

Dull; grave; dark; somber; - said of colors.

‘Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors.’;

Sapnoun

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sadadjective

Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.

‘Lady Catharine, a sad and religious woman.’; ‘Which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties.’;

Sapnoun

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sadadjective

Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.

‘First were we sad, fearing you would not come;Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.’; ‘The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad.’;

Sapnoun

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

Sadadjective

Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.

Sapnoun

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sadadjective

Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.

Sapverb

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

‘Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods,Their houses fell upon their household gods.’;

Sadverb

To make sorrowful; to sadden.

‘How it sadded the minister's spirits!’;

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sadnoun

Seasonal affective disorder.

Sapverb

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

‘Ring out the grief that saps the mind.’;

Sadadjective

experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness;

‘feeling sad because his dog had died’; ‘Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad’;

Sapverb

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

‘Both assaults are carried on by sapping.’;

Sadadjective

of things that make you feel sad;

‘sad news’; ‘she doesn't like sad movies’; ‘it was a very sad story’; ‘When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me’;

Sapnoun

a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

Sadadjective

bad; unfortunate;

‘my finances were in a deplorable state’; ‘a lamentable decision’; ‘her clothes were in sad shape’; ‘a sorry state of affairs’;

Sapnoun

a person who lacks good judgment

Sadadjective

feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy

‘they looked at her with sad, anxious faces’; ‘I was sad and subdued’;

Sapnoun

a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Sadadjective

causing or characterized by sorrow or regret; unfortunate and regrettable

‘a sad day for us all’; ‘he told her the sad story of his life’;

Sapverb

deplete;

‘exhaust one's savings’; ‘We quickly played out our strength’;

Sadadjective

pathetically inadequate or unfashionable

‘the show is tongue-in-cheek—anyone who takes it seriously is a bit sad’;

Sapverb

excavate the earth beneath

Sadadjective

(of dough) heavy through having failed to rise.

Sap

Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.