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Bagel vs Existent - What's the difference?

bagel | existent |

As nouns the difference between bagel and existent

is that bagel is bagel (toroidal bread roll) while existent is (archaic) a being or entity that exists independently.

As an adjective existent is

existing; having life or being, current; occurring now.

bagel

English

Alternative forms

* beigel (UK)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
  • (tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=January 30 , author=Piers Newbery , title=Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone. }}
  • (slang, among South African Jews) An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.

    • See also

    * Beuge * beugen * Beugung * Biege * biegen * Biegung * donut, doughnut * torus, toroid

    References

    * * (wikipedia "bagel")

    Anagrams

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    existent

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • existing; having life or being, current; occurring now

    • Synonyms

    * existing

    Antonyms

    * nonexistent

    Related terms

    * exist * existence * existential * extant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) a being or entity that exists independently
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