Baud vs Gaud - What's the difference?
baud | gaud |
(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 cheap showy trinket
* Shakespeare
* 1926 Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war. - T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(obsolete) trick; jest; sport
(obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
(obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
As nouns the difference between baud and gaud
is that baud is (computing|telecommunications) a rate defined as the number of signalling events per second in a data transmission while gaud is a cheap showy trinket.As a verb gaud is
(obsolete) to bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint or gaud can be to sport or keep festival.baud
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* ----gaud
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Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- an idle gaud
- (Chaucer)
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Verb
(en verb)- Nicely gauded cheeks. — Shakespeare.
