Blood vs. Oak — What's the Difference?

Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.In vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and blood cells themselves.

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks.

The fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated by the heart through the vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues.

Any of numerous deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Quercus, bearing acorns as fruit.

A similar fluid in animals other than vertebrates.

The hard durable wood of any of these trees or shrubs.

The juice or sap of certain plants.

Something made of this wood.

A vital or animating force; lifeblood.

Any of various trees or shrubs having wood or a leaf shape similar to that of certain oaks.

One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, identified with the blood found in blood vessels, and thought to cause cheerfulness.

Any of various brown shades resembling the wood of an oak in color.

Bloodshed; murder.

(countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.

Temperament or disposition

(uncountable) The wood of the oak.

Descent from a common ancestor; parental lineage.

A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.

Family relationship; kinship.

Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.

Descent from noble or royal lineage

Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.

Recorded descent from purebred stock.

The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae

National or racial ancestry.

Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae

A dandy.

Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae

A member of a tribe of the Blackfoot confederacy inhabiting southern Alberta.

Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae

To give (a hunting dog) its first taste of blood.

Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.

To subject (troops) to experience under fire

The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase "to sport one's oak").

To initiate by subjecting to an unpleasant or difficult experience.

(wine) The flavor of oak.

A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

Having a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.

A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).

Made of oak wood or timber

(historical) One of the four humours in the human body.

To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors.

A blood test or blood sample.

Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.

The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.

The strong wood or timber of the oak.

(poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.

The hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring

Temper of mind; disposition; mood

A deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves;

(obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.

A blood horse, one of good pedigree.

(figurative) Bloodshed.

Alternative case form of Blood.

A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.

(transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

To let blood (from); to bleed.

(transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.

Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

The fleshy nature of man.

The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.

A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.

Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; - as if the blood were the seat of emotions.

A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.

The juice of anything, especially if red.

To bleed.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.

To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart;

The descendants of one individual;

The shedding of blood resulting in murder;

Temperament or disposition;

A dissolute man in fashionable society

People viewed as members of a group;

Smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill