Phantom vs Lemur - What's the difference?
phantom | lemur |
Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive.
An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
Illusive.
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, title=, chapter=1
, passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}
Fictitious or nonexistent.
(colloquial) Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
The genus Lemur , represented by the ring-tailed lemur ().
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, year=1758
, author=Linnaeus, C.
, title=Systema Naturæ
, volume=1
, edition=10
(obsolete) The genus for a loris (), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ .
* {{quote-book
, year=1754
, author=Linnaeus, C.
, title=Museum Adolphi Friderici Regis
As nouns the difference between phantom and lemur
is that phantom is something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive while lemur is any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.As an adjective phantom
is illusive.As a proper noun Phantom
is nickname of the F-4B jet fighter flown by Marines in Vietnam.phantom
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Alternative forms
* fantom (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* ghost * See alsoDerived terms
* phantom limb * phantom painAdjective
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*lemur
Noun
(en noun)citation, publisher=Laurentius Salvius , location=Stockholm, Sweden , pages=29–30 , pageurl=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726922 }}
citation, publisher=Typographia Regia , location=Stockholm, Sweden , page=3–4 , pageurl=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k972707/f36.image , passage="Lemures dixi hos, quod noctu imprimis obambulant, hominibus quodanmodo similes, & lento passu vagantur." , translation=[I call them lemurs , because they go around mainly by night, in a certain way similar to humans, and roam with a slow pace.] }}