Thorn vs. Torn — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Thorn and Torn
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Definitions
Thorn
A modified branch in the form of a sharp woody structure.
Torn
Past participle of tear1.
Thorn
Any of various other sharp protuberances, such as a spine.
Torn
Past participle of tear(rip, rend, speed).
Thorn
Any of various shrubs, trees, or woody plants bearing such sharp structures.
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Torn
Having edges that are jagged from injury
Thorn
Any of various sharp protuberances on an animal.
Torn
Disrupted by the pull of contrary forces;
Torn between love and hate
Torn by conflicting loyalties
Torn by religious dissensions
Thorn
One that causes sharp pain, irritation, or discomfort
He is a thorn in my side.
Thorn
The runic letter þ, used in Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse manuscripts to represent both the voiceless sound (th) of Modern English thin and the voiced sound (th) of Modern English this, and in modern Icelandic orthography to represent the voiceless sound (th).
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Thorn
(botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.
Thorn
Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
The white thorn
The cockspur thorn
Thorn
(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
Thorn
A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
Thorn
To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).
Thorn
A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
Thorn
Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
Thorn
Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.
The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares,Be only mine.
Thorn
The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter , capital form . It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.
Thorn
To prick, as with a thorn.
I am the only rose of all the stockThat never thorn'd him.
Thorn
Something that causes irritation and annoyance;
He's a thorn in my flesh
Thorn
A sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf
Thorn
A Germanic character of runic origin