Baron vs Boron - What's the difference?
baron | boron |
The male ruler of a barony.
A male member of the lowest rank of British nobility.
A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= (legal, obsolete) A husband.
The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5; a metalloid
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* {{quote-journal, 2001, date=August 10, J. Akimitsu et al., High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in CaB2C2, Science
, passage=For each X point, four borons in the same plane composing a B 6 cluster provide these orbitals. }}
As nouns the difference between baron and boron
is that baron is baron while boron is the chemical element (symbol b) with an atomic number of 5; a metalloid.baron
English
Noun
(en noun)- Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
- baron and feme: husband and wife
Derived terms
* baron and femme * barony * robber baronAnagrams
*References
* "baron n. ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; first published in New English Dictionary, 1885. ----boron
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Noun
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