Baud vs Bud - What's the difference?
baud | bud |
(computing, telecommunications) A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second in a data transmission.
(computing, informal) Synonym for bps (bits per second), regardless of how many signalling events are necessary to signal each bit.
A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.
(usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud ), or marijuana generally.
A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
To form buds.
To reproduce by splitting off buds.
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
(informal) Buddy, friend.
(informal) (used to address a male)
As nouns the difference between baud and bud
is that baud is a rate defined as the number of signalling events per second in a data transmission while bud is a newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.As a verb bud is
to form buds.As a proper noun Bud is
a male nickname.baud
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Anagrams
* ----bud
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) budde 'bud, seedpod', from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia bud) (en noun)- After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds .
- Hey bro, want to smoke some bud ?
- In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds .
Synonyms
* (marijuana) nug; see alsoDerived terms
* redbud * taste bud * bud of promiseVerb
(budd)- The trees are finally starting to bud .
- Yeast reproduces by budding .
- a budding virgin
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Etymology 2
From (buddy).Noun
(en noun)- I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.