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Oxygen vs Hamburger - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between oxygen and hamburger

is that oxygen is a chemical element (symbol o) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 159994 while hamburger is a person from hamburg.

oxygen

English

Noun

(wikipedia oxygen)
  • A chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994.
  • Molecular oxygen (O2), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen' levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste ' oxygen using solar energy. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light.}}
  • (medicine) A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help him or her to breathe.
  • (countable) An atom of this element.

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    Related terms

    * BSCCO * Entonox * hydroxy- * hydroxyl * oxide * oxo-, oxo * oxy-, oxy * oxygenase * oxygenate * oxygenation * oxylith * oxytocic * YBCO

    Synonyms

    * sourstuff * when used as a packaging gas

    See also

    * ozone ----

    hamburger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
  • The patty used in such a sandwich.
  • (uncountable) Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
  • (colloquial, somewhat, vulgar) An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.
    • The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger .
    I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.

    Synonyms

    * (sandwich) beefburger * (patty) hamburger patty

    Hypernyms

    * (sandwich) burger

    Hyponyms

    (sense) * slider * quarter-pounder * cheeseburger

    Coordinate terms

    (sense) * chicken burger * fish burger * lamb burger * pork burger * vegeburger * soyburger

    Derived terms

    * burger * cheeseburger * hamburgerology * vegeburger * soyburger * gardenburger