Bible vs Bile - What's the difference?
bible | bile |
A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman’s bible).
* 1995 , Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu",
(nautical) A holystone.
Collection of sacred writing of the Christian religion
(biochemistry) A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
* {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Walter Scott, title=The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1616, author=Alexander Roberts, title=A Treatise of Witchcraft, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He spake out of the Pythonesse'', ''Act. 16. 17.'' brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed ''Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head. }}
As a proper noun bible
is the main religious text in christianity or bible can be .As a noun bible
is a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.As an adverb bile is
even.bible
English
(wikipedia bible)Noun
(en noun)Wired Magazine
- Computer Lib was written as a popular primer, but its most profound effect was on computer programmers, who needed little persuasion about the value of computers. Its tone – energetic, optimistic, inexhaustible, confused – matched theirs exactly. Having set out to appeal to the general public, Nelson managed to publish an insider's bible and highly intimate guide to hacker culture.
bile
English
(wikipedia bile)Etymology 1
Mid 16th century, via (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
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