Artificial vs Flyrod - What's the difference?
artificial | flyrod |
Man-made; of artifice.
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False, misleading.
Unnatural.
A thin, flexible fishing rod designed to cast an artificial fly.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 21, author=Peter Kaminsky, title=Taking His Cue From the Fish, work=New York Times
, passage=Though the flyrod remains Gowdy’s preference, the best way to characterize his angling style these days is: whatever it takes to get the big ones, an approach he attributes to a chance encounter 10 years ago in a Chinese restaurant near his home at the time in North Andover, Mass. }}
As an adjective artificial
is man-made; of artifice.As a noun flyrod is
a thin, flexible fishing rod designed to cast an artificial fly.artificial
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.}}
Derived terms
* artificial consciousness * artificial intelligence * artificiality * artificially * artificialness * artificial selection * artificial turfSee also
* fake ----flyrod
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Noun
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