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Teacup vs Unicorn - What's the difference?

teacup | unicorn |

As nouns the difference between teacup and unicorn

is that teacup is a small cup, with a handle, used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set while unicorn is a mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.

As an adjective teacup

is of an animal, smaller than average.

teacup

English

Alternative forms

* tea-cup * tea cup

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small cup, with a handle, used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.
  • A unit of measure; a teacupful.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of an animal, smaller than average.
  • unicorn

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rft-sense)A mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
  • A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Great Britain and of Scotland.
  • (historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ); a reem or wild ox.
  • *
  • God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn : he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
  • Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax.
  • The larva of a unicorn moth.
  • The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
  • A howitzer.
  • Hyponyms

    * pegacorn, unipeg, unisus

    Meronyms

    *

    Holonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * Chinese unicorn * Invisible Pink Unicorn * unicorn bait * unicorn root * unicornlike

    See also

    * alicorn * bicorne * monoceros * reem * tricorn, tricorne