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Burgle vs Bugle - What's the difference?

burgle | bugle |

As verbs the difference between burgle and bugle

is that burgle is (chiefly|british|nz) to commit burglary while bugle is .

burgle

English

Verb

(burgl)
  • (chiefly, British, NZ) to commit burglary.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1892 , year_published=2011 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , title=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , chapter=The Beryl Coronet citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night. }}
  • (UK, sports) To take the ball legally from an opposing player.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.}}

    Synonyms

    * (chiefly North America) burglarize

    Related terms

    * burglar * burglary * breaking and entering

    See also

    * rob * steal * thieve * purloin

    Anagrams

    * *

    bugle

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horn used by hunters.
  • (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  • An often-cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.
  • Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
    • Synonyms
    * (shaped like a bugle) cone, funnel
    Hypernyms
    * musical instrument
    Derived terms
    * bugler
    Coordinate terms
    * trumpet

    Verb

    (bugl)
  • To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle
    • Synonyms
    * trumpet

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
  • * 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
    • With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • jet-black
  • * Shakespeare
    • Bugle eyeballs.

    Etymology 3

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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