Apocalypse vs Playstation - What's the difference?
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A revelation.
(Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the ; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
A disaster; a cataclysmic event.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 699:
(video games) A video game console of the "PlayStation" brand.
* {{quote-book, year=2003, title=Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist?, author=Cash Peters, page=55
, passage=Back then, kids didn't have TV or video games, so I guess slaughtering your mom and dad was a bit like the Playstation of its day.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2009, title=One Nation Under Dog, author=Michael Schaffer, page=150
, passage=The Everlasting Treat Ball landed like the PlayStation of the pet products world back in 2004.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2009, title=Lonely Planet Morocco, author=Paul Clammer, Alison Bing, Anthony Sattin, Paul Stiles, page=38
, passage=He was obsessed with bullfighting, which was the PlayStation of the day, only considerably more dangerous; he was soon gored to death.}}
As a proper noun apocalypse
is (countable|biblical) the written account of a revelation of hidden things given by god to a chosen prophet.As a noun playstation is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.
- The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse .
Synonyms
* armageddon * doomsday * judgement day * nuclear holocaust * Ragnarok (Ragnarök) * Final Judgment * end times * eschatonDerived terms
* apocalyptic * apocalypticism * snowpocalypseplaystation
English
Noun
(en noun)- I bought a PlayStation for my son.
