The difference between Imp and Urchin
When used as nouns, imp means a young shoot of a plant, tree etc, whereas urchin means a mischievous child.
Imp is also verb with the meaning: to plant or engraft.
check bellow for the other definitions of Imp and Urchin
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Imp as a noun (obsolete):
A young shoot of a plant, tree etc.
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Imp as a noun (obsolete):
A scion, offspring; a child.
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Imp as a noun:
A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful.
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Imp as a noun:
A mischievous child.
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Imp as a noun (UK, dialect, obsolete):
Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, such as an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; or a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
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Imp as a noun:
A baby Tasmanian devil.
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Imp as a verb (obsolete):
To plant or engraft.
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Imp as a verb (archaic):
To graft, implant; to set or fix.
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Imp as a verb (falconry):
To engraft (feathers) into a bird's wing.
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Imp as a verb:
To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.
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Urchin as a noun:
A mischievous child.
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Urchin as a noun:
A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
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Urchin as a noun (archaic):
A hedgehog.
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Urchin as a noun:
A sea urchin.
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Urchin as a noun:
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
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Urchin as a noun:
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
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Urchin as a noun (historical):
A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.