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Barnacle vs Leopard - What's the difference?

barnacle | leopard |

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

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Verb

    (barnacl)
  • To connect with or attach.
  • * 2009 , , Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos , Stone Bridge Press (2009), ISBN 9781933330853, page 178:
  • Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.
  • To press close against something.
  • * 2002 , , All Families Are Psychotic , Vintage Canada (2002), ISBN 0679311831, 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

    * limpet

    References

    * * 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue , available from Project Gutenberg [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5402]

    Anagrams

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    leopard

    Alternative forms

    * lybard * libbard

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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, 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.
  • * 1998 , Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel , page 201,
  • 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.
  • * 2005 , Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine , page 197,
  • Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
  • 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 , 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.
  • Specifically, a male leopard ; in contrast to leopardess .
  • (heraldiccharge) A lion passant guardant.
  • Synonyms

    * (Panthera pardus) common leopard

    Derived terms

    * a leopard cannot change its spots * clouded leopard * common leopard * leopardess * leopard cat * leopard complex * leopard frog * leopard gecko * leopard moth * leopard seal * leopard shark * leopard tortoise * leopard's head * leopardsbane * Louisiana Catahoula leopard dog * snow leopard

    Hypernyms

    * panther

    Anagrams

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