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Angular vs Greywacke - What's the difference?

angular | greywacke |

As nouns the difference between angular and greywacke

is that angular is (anatomy) a bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes while greywacke is (geology) a hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.

As an adjective angular

is relating to an angle or angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as in, an angular figure.

angular

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to an angle or angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as in, an angular figure.
  • * '>citation
  • In overall appearance, katakana symbols are more angular in shape and hiragana are more rounded. Here are the first five sounds of each script (a, i, u, e, o). Compare these two sets of symbols and see if you can identify these features:
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  • Measured by an angle; as in, angular distance.
  • Lean, lank, rawboned.
  • Ungraceful.
  • (figuratively) Sharp and stiff in character
  • ''He's remarkably angular in his habits and appearance.
    ''She is an angular female.

    Synonyms

    * (sharp and stiff in character) rugged, rude

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
  • ----

    greywacke

    Alternative forms

    * graywacke

    Noun

  • (geology) A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 177:
  • *:Endless bleak, rounded hills composed of shales and ribs of tough ‘greywackes ’ make up the Southern Uplands – all of such rocks were originally deposited under marine conditions.
  • Derived terms

    * metagreywacke, metagraywacke