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Bugle vs Oily - What's the difference?

bugle | oily |

As a verb bugle

is .

As an adjective oily is

relating to oil.

As a noun oily is

a marble with an oily lustre.

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

    * ----

    oily

    English

    Alternative forms

    * oyly (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Relating to oil.
  • Smeared with or containing oil.
  • (figuratively) Excessively friendly or polite so as to sound insincere.

    • Derived terms

    * smell of an oily rag

    Noun

    (oilies)
  • A marble with an oily lustre.
  • * 1998 , Joanna Cole, Stephanie Calmenson, Michael Street, Marbles: 101 ways to play
    • Lustered (also called lusters, rainbows, oilies , and pearls)
  • * 2001 , Paul Webley, The economic psychology of everyday life (page 39)
    • But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies , emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles
  • oilskins (waterproof garment)