Bike vs Pedal - What's the difference?
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A short form of bicycle.
A short form of motorbike.
(slang) A promiscuous woman; from “the town bike (everybody rides her)”.
To ride a bike.
To travel by bike.
(Scotland, Northern England) A nest of wasps or hornets.
*1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 107:
*:he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he'd once climbed which had a wasp's byke in it unbeknown to him.
A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano
(medicine) a foot or footlike part.
To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
To operate a bicycle.
Bike is a related term of pedal.
As nouns the difference between bike and pedal
is that bike is a short form of bicycle or bike can be (scotland|northern england) a nest of wasps or hornets while pedal is pedal.As a verb bike
is to ride a bike.bike
English
Etymology 1
From , by shortening, and possibly alteration. One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle'' is parsed to ''bi(cy)c(le).'' An alternative explanation is that ''bicycle'' is shortened to ''bic(ycle),'' and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in ''bicycle'' but retained as [k] in bike ; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).''An Etymological Brainteaser: The Shortening of Bicycle to Bike, Robert B. Hausmann, American Speech, Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 1976), pp. 272–274
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (motorcycle): motorbike * (woman): slapper (British''), slag (''British )Derived terms
* (bicycle) cross bike; dirt bike; like riding a bike; mountain bike; road bike; utility bike * (motorcycle) biker; bikey or bikie (Australia ); quad bike * (woman) town bike, village bikeSee also
* trikeReferences
Verb
(bik)- I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
- It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* * English collective nouns ----pedal
English
Noun
(en noun)- There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.
- A piano usually has two or three pedals .
- the pedal of a loom
Derived terms
* brake pedal * pedal pushers * soft pedal * sostenuto pedal * sustaining pedalVerb
- to pedal one's loom
- He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.