Barnacle vs Leopard - What's the difference?
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A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
The barnacle goose.
(engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
(computing, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
(obsolete) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
(archaic, British) A nickname for spectacles.
(slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
To connect with or attach.
* 2009 , , Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos , Stone Bridge Press (2009), ISBN 9781933330853,
To press close against something.
* 2002 , , All Families Are Psychotic , Vintage Canada (2002), ISBN 0679311831,
Panthera pardus , a large wild cat with a spotted coat, indigenous to Africa and Asia.
* 1990 , Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species , 1992,
* 1998 , Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel ,
* 2005 , Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine ,
Either of two similar large cats native to Asia, also with spotted coats: Neofelis nebulosa'' (clouded leopard) or ''Uncia uncia (snow leopard).
* 2005 , Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations ,
Specifically, a male leopard ; in contrast to leopardess .
(heraldiccharge) A lion passant guardant.
As nouns the difference between barnacle and leopard
is that barnacle is a marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships while leopard is Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat, indigenous to Africa and Asia.As a verb barnacle
is to connect with or attach.barnacle
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(en noun)Verb
(barnacl)page 178:
- Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.
page 16:
- He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.
See also
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* * 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue , available from Project Gutenberg [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5402]Anagrams
*leopard
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(wikipedia leopard)Alternative forms
* lybard * libbardNoun
(en noun)page 284,
- During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard' was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of '''leopards''' to recognize that, even in the absence of a '''leopard''', a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a ' leopard itself.
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- The leopard (Panthera pardus'' or ''Felis pardus cf tulliana ) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
page 197,
- Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
page 81,
- There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards'—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded ' leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.