Sap vs. Oracle

Sapnoun

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

Sapnoun

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

Sapnoun

Any juice.

Sapnoun

(figurative) Vitality.

Sapnoun

a naive person; a simpleton

Sapnoun

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

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.

Sapverb

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

Sapverb

To exhaust the vitality of.

Sapverb

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Sapverb

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

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

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

Sapverb

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

Sapverb

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

Sapnoun

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

Sapnoun

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sapnoun

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

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.

Sapverb

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

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

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

Sapverb

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

Sapnoun

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

Sapnoun

a person who lacks good judgment

Sapnoun

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

Sapverb

deplete;

Sapverb

excavate the earth beneath

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.

Oraclenoun

A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.

Oraclenoun

A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecy or advice.

Oraclenoun

A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given.

Oraclenoun

A person considered to be a source of wisdom.

Oraclenoun

A wise sentence or decision of great authority.

Oraclenoun

One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.

Oraclenoun

(computing theory) A theoretical entity capable of answering some collection of questions.

Oraclenoun

(Jewish antiquity) The sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.

Oracleverb

(obsolete) To utter oracles or prophecies.

Oraclenoun

The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.

Oraclenoun

The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.

Oraclenoun

The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures - usually in the plural.

Oraclenoun

The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.

Oraclenoun

One who communicates an oracle{1} or divine command; an angel; a prophet.

Oraclenoun

Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle.

Oraclenoun

A wise pronouncement or decision considered as of great authority.

Oracleverb

To utter oracles.

Oraclenoun

an authoritative person who divines the future

Oraclenoun

a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible

Oraclenoun

a shrine where an oracular god is consulted

Oraclenoun

a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.

Oraclenoun

a place at which divine advice or prophecy was sought.

Oraclenoun

a person or thing regarded as an infallible authority on something

Oraclenoun

a response or message given by an oracle, especially an ambiguous one.

Oracle

An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination.