Sallow vs. Swallow — What's the Difference?

Of a sickly yellowish hue or complexion.

The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine birds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica. Highly adapted to aerial feeding, they have a distinctive appearance.

To make sallow.

To cause (food or drink, for example) to pass through the mouth and throat into the stomach.

Any of several low-growing or shrubby European willows, especially Salix caprea or S. cinerea, having large catkins that appear early in the spring and formerly used as a source of charcoal and tannin.

To put up with (something unpleasant)

(of skin) Yellowish.

To refrain from expressing; suppress

Of a sickly pale colour.

To envelop or engulf

(Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.

To consume or use up

(of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.

(Slang) To believe without question

(of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.

To take back; retract

Foul; murky; sickly.

To say inarticulately; mumble

(intransitive) To become sallow.

To perform the act of swallowing.

(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.

The act of swallowing.

A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.

An amount swallowed.

A willow twig or branch.

(Nautical) The channel through which a rope runs in a block or a mooring chock.

The willow; willow twigs.

Any of various small graceful swift-flying passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a usually notched or forked tail, and a large mouth for catching flying insects.

A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.

Any of various similar birds, such as a swift.

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.

(transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.

To tinge with sallowness.

(transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.

Any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal

(intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.

Cause to become sallow;

(transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.

Unhealthy looking

(intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.

(transitive) To retract; to recant.

(transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.

(archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.

(archaic) The mouth and throat; that which is used for swallowing; the gullet.

The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

(nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.

(Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.

A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.

Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.

The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

The act of swallowing.

The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.

Taste; relish; inclination; liking.

Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.

That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.

To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.

To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb - usually followed by up.

To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.

To engross; to appropriate; - usually with up.

To occupy; to take up; to employ.

To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.

To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.

To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.

A small amount of liquid food;

The act of swallowing;

Small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations

Pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking;

Engulf and destroy;

Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing;

Utter indistinctly;

Take back what one has said;

Keep from expressing;

Tolerate or accommodate oneself to;

Believe or accept without questioning or challenge;