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Alice vs Carina - What's the difference?

alice | carina |

As nouns the difference between alice and carina

is that alice is (military|us|initialism) (all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment) while carina is a longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.

alice

English

Proper noun

(Alice and Bob) (Alice Springs) (en proper noun)
  • popular in England since the Middle Ages .
  • * 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer), :
  • That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis , / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.
  • * 1871 :
  • "My name is Alice , but - "
    "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"
    "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
    "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
  • * 1968 (Kurt Vonnegut), Welcome to the Monkey House , Delacorte Press, page xiv:
  • She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice'', but she used to deny that she was really an ' Alice . I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
  • (cryptography, physics) a placeholder name for the person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
  • (Alice Springs), Australia.
  • * 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance'', in ''How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays , page 17,
  • At that point in my second visit to the Alice', I'd been there only a day. they're ''doing'' Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the ' Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
  • * 2003 , Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice (page 27),
  • In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice .
  • * 2004 , Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories (page 7),
  • "Don't waste yer time in The Alice , get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
  • A city in North Dakota.
  • A city in Texas.
  • Derived terms

    * Alice band * Alice blue * Alice in Wonderland

    Synonyms

    * Party A (placeholder) * Alice Springs (city)

    See also

    * Bob *

    Anagrams

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    carina

    English

    Etymology 1

    Named by the French astronomer in 1763. From (etyl)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
  • Derived terms
    * Carinae
    See also
    * Argo * Argo Navis * Puppis * Pyxis * Vela

    Etymology 2

    Name of a fourth century martyr, feminine of Latin carinus'', derivative of ''carus "beloved"; also a latinization of Karina and Karin (= Catherine) in northern Europe.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • occasionally used in English.
  • Anagrams

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