Alligator vs Wolf - What's the difference?
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Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, , in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China.
* 2002 , Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia ,
* 2007 , Bernie McGovern (editor), Florida Almanac: 2007-2008 , 17th Edition,
* 2012 , Thomas N. Tozer, Pierre's Journey to Florida: Diary of a Young Huguenot in the Sixteenth Century ,
Any of various machines with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
# (metalworking) A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
# (mining) A rock breaker.
# (printing) A kind of job press.
(of paint or other coatings) To crack in a pattern resembling an alligator's skin.
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A large wild canid of certain subspecies of Canis lupus .
A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
(music) A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
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, title= A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
* Jeremy Taylor
A willying machine.
To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
* 1987 , James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
* 2013 , Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea
In obsolete terms the difference between alligator and wolf
is that alligator is one who binds or ties while wolf is an eating ulcer or sore. See {{term|lupus|lang=en}}.As nouns the difference between alligator and wolf
is that alligator is either of two species of large amphibious reptile, species: Alligator mississippiensis or species: Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China while wolf is a large wild canid of certain subspecies of Canis lupus.As verbs the difference between alligator and wolf
is that alligator is to crack in a pattern resembling an alligator's skin while wolf is to devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.As a proper noun Wolf is
the constellation Lupus.alligator
English
(wikipedia alligator)Etymology 1
.Noun
(en noun)- All you could see of the alligator were its two eyes above the water, and suddenly it snatched up and caught the poor bird with its strong jaws full of sharp teeth .
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- Alligators and crocodiles look extremely alike.
- The main distinguishing feature is the teeth. In a crocodile the teeth in its upper and lower jaws are in line, but in an alligator , when its mouth is shut, the upper teeth lie outside the lower ones.
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- In 1967, the federal government declared alligators' to be an Endangered Species and prohibited gator hunting and the sale of hides. The ' alligator responded and by the mid-1970s, the reptile numbers soared to an estimated half-million.
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- They ran to the village screaming at the top of their lungs that an alligator' was coming after them. Several of the men in Alimacani retrieved from a storehouse the tool they used to catch ' alligators .
Synonyms
* (reptile within Crocodilia) gator (informal)Coordinate terms
* (reptile within Crocodilia) caiman, cayman; croc, crocodile; gavial, gharialDerived terms
* (Alligator Alley) * alligator apple * alligator bait * alligator clip * alligatored * alligator fish * alligator forceps * alligator gar * alligator grass * alligatoring * alligator leather * alligator lizard * alligator pear * (Alligator Pond) * alligator press * alligator shear * alligator skin * alligator snapper, alligator snapping turtle * alligator spread * alligator terrapin * alligator tortoise * alligator turtle, alligator-turtle * alligator weed * alligator wood * alligator wrench * American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis ) * Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis ) * gator * prairie alligator * see you later alligator * spectacled alligatorVerb
(en verb)page 24,
- Alligatoring is a result of the sun making the top surface of the asphalt brittle.
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- Sealing an area that is alligatoring' is a temporary solution that may delay having to replace the asphalt for several years. A more permanent repair would be to replace the ' alligatored section.
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- Common burn indicators include alligatoring , crazing, the depth of char, lines of demarcation, sagged furniture springs and spalling.
References
*Etymology 2
.See also
* ligator ----wolf
English
Noun
(wolves)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“
- If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.
- (Knight)
Hypernyms
* (large wild canid) Canis lupus , canidHyponyms
* (large wild canid) she-wolfCoordinate terms
* (large wild canid) dingo, dog ; coyote, jackal, fox (other canids)Derived terms
(terms derived from "wolf") * Big Bad Wolf * cry wolf * grey wolf, gray wolf * Mexican wolf * raised by wolves * red wolf * sea wolf * she-wolf * Tasmanian wolf * werewolf * white wolf * wolf cub * wolf down * wolf in sheep's clothing * wolf interval * wolfie * wolfish * wolflike * wolf tone * wolvenVerb
- After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.
- Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.