Lion vs Difference - What's the difference?
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A big cat, Panthera leo , native to Africa, India and formerly to much of Europe. The term may apply to the species as a whole, to individuals, or to male individuals. It also applies to related species like mountain lions.
# A male lion.
(heraldiccharge) A stylized representation of a large cat, used on a coat of arms.
A Chinese foo dog.
An individual who shows strength and courage, attributes associated with the lion.
* 2003 , Peter Armstrong and Angus McBride, Stirling Bridge & Falkirk 1297–98: William Wallace's Rebellion :
A famous person regarded with interest and curiosity.
* Prof. Wilson
* 1919 ,
A light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion
(uncountable) The quality of being different.
(countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
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(countable) A disagreement or argument.
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* T. Ellwood
(countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
(countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
(obsolete) Choice; preference.
* Spenser
(heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
(logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
(logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation ().
(relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another ().
To distinguish or differentiate.
As nouns the difference between lion and difference
is that lion is net, web while difference is difference.As a verb lion
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- Tigers and lions share a common ancestor from a few million years ago.
- It was said of [Edward Plantaganet] that 'he was a lion for pride and ferocity but a pard for inconstancy and changeableness, not keeping his word or promise but excusing himself with fair words'.
- Such society was far more enjoyable than that of Edinburgh, for here he was not a lion , but a man.
- Rose Waterford was a cynic. She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material. Now and then she invited members of it to her house if they showed an appreciation of her talent and entertained with proper lavishness. She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.
Coordinate terms
* (Panthera leo) cougar, leopard, panther, puma, tiger * (male lion individual) cub, lionessHolonyms
* (individual Panthera leo) prideDerived terms
* antlion, ant lion * aphid lion, aphis lion * beard the lion * Cape lion * cave lion * dandelion * golden lion tamarin * Lion of Judah * Lion of St Mark * Lion of Venice * lion's ear * lion's foot * lion's leaf * lion's share * lion's tail * lion's tooth * lion cub * lioness * lionfish * Lionheart * lionhearted, lion-hearted * lionhood * lionise, lionize * lionism * lionlike * lionly * lionship * marsupial lion * mountain lion * Nemean lion * sea lion * Steller's sea lion * twist the lion's tailSee also
* (wikipedia) * (Panthera leo) * (commonslite) * *Anagrams
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English
Noun
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- We have our little differences , but we are firm friends.
- What was the difference ? It was a contention in public.
- Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could.
- The line of the horizon was clear and hard against the sky, and in one particular quarter it showed black against a silvery climbing phosphorescence that grew and grew. At last, over the rim of the waiting earth the moon lifted with slow majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of moorings; and once more they began to see surfaces—meadows wide-spread, and quiet gardens, and the river itself from bank to bank, all softly disclosed, all washed clean of mystery and terror, all radiant again as by day, but with a difference that was tremendous.
- That now be chooseth with vile difference / To be a beast, and lack intelligence.
Synonyms
* (characteristic of something that makes it different from something else) departure, deviation, divergence * (disagreement or argument about something important) conflict, difference of opinion, dispute, dissension * (result of a subtraction) remainder * (significant change in state) nevermindAntonyms
* (quality of being different) identity, samenessDerived terms
* distinction without a difference * creative differences * difference engine * difference equation * difference gate * difference of two squares * goal difference * same difference * split the difference * spot the difference * tell the differenceSee also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividendVerb
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