Bulb vs Blub - What's the difference?
bulb | blub |
Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
A light bulb.
The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
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(nautical) a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
To cry, whine or blubber
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(obsolete) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
Blub is a anagram of bulb.
As verbs the difference between bulb and blub
is that bulb is to take the shape of a bulb; to swell while blub is to cry, whine or blubber.As a noun bulb
is any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.bulb
English
Noun
(en noun)- the bulb of the aorta
- the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs .