Bee vs Salamander - What's the difference?
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A flying insect, of the superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies and for collecting pollen and producing wax and honey.
*1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
*:His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
*, II.12:
*:Can there be a more formall, and better ordered policie, divided into so severall charges and offices, more constantly entertained, and better maintained, than that of Bees ?
*2012 , ‘Subtle poison’, The Economist , 31 March:
*:Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.
A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
A gathering for a specific purpose, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
* S. G. Goodrich
* 2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep 2011:
(obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book VII:
* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial , Penguin 2005, page 16:
* 1604 Reverend Cawdrey Table Aleph
(obsolete) ; been
Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.
English terms with multiple etymologies
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A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, resembling a lizard or a newt.
* 1672 , (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica)'', 1852, Simon Wilkin (editor), ''The Works of Sir Thomas Browne , Volume 1,
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(mythology) A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire, hence the elemental being of fire.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XI
* 1849 , John Brand, Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions , Volume 3, page 372
(cooking) A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
* 1977 , Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery (discussing 19th century cookery), Rigby, 1977, ISBN 0-7270-0187-6, page 41
(cooking) A small broiler, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.
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The (pouched gopher), , of the southern United States.
(UK, obsolete) A large poker.
(metallurgy) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
To use a (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.
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As nouns the difference between bee and salamander
is that bee is while salamander is salamander.bee
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bee, from (etyl) ).Noun
(s)- An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee .
Derived terms
* bee-eater * beekeeper * beehive * beehouse * beeline * beeswax * bee's knees * bumblebee * honeybee * carpenter bee * have a bee in your bonnet * put the bee on * queen bee * stingless bee * sting like a bee * worker beeSynonyms
*See also
* apian * apiarian * apiarist * apiary * apimania * * * drone * dumbledore * hornet * honey * imbe * pollinator * waspEtymology 2
Possibly from dialectal (etyl) bene, been, .Noun
(en noun)- geography bee
- The cellar was dug by a bee in a single day.
- Particularly resistant, for example, in many parts of northern Europe was the “spinning bee ”, a nocturnal gathering of women to exchange gossip, stories, refreshment and – crucially – light and heat, as they spun wool or flax, knitted or sewed.
Etymology 3
(Northern development of) (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- And Kynge Arthure gaff hir a ryche bye of golde; and so she departed.
- ...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees , the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...
Etymology 4
Variant spellings.Verb
(head)- held that a ‘Nicholaitan is an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike.’
- (Spenser)
Etymology 5
See also
*Etymology 6
Probably from an (etyl) word meaning "ring". See bow.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bee blockReferences
salamander
English
(wikipedia salamander)Noun
(en noun)page 292,
- and most plainly Pierius, whose words in his hieroglyphicks are these: "Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that it is so far from quenching hot coals, that it dyeth immediately therein."
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- “Not a chance, Ranger,” Bob Mason was speaking. “This little cuss is a salamander . He's been travelling through fire all day and there isn't a blister on him. …”
- "There is a vulgar error," says the author of the Brief Natural History, p. 91, "that a salamander' lives in the fire. Yet both Galen and Dioscorides refute this opinion; and Mathiolus, in his Commentaries upon Dioscorides, a very famous physician, affirms of them, that by casting of many a ' salamander into the fire for tryal he found it false. The same experiment is likewise avouched by Joubertus."
- The salamander , a fairly long metal utensil with a flat rounded head, was left in the fire until red hot and then used to brown the top of a dish without further cooking.
- The chef first put the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.
- (Halliwell)
Hyponyms
* (amphibian) siredonDerived terms
* (cave salamander) * fire salamander * giant salamander * mole salamander * tiger salamanderVerb
(en verb)- When cold, sprinkle the custard thickly with sugar and salamander it.