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Bulb vs Clove - What's the difference?

bulb | clove |

As nouns the difference between bulb and clove

is that bulb is any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end while clove is a very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

As verbs the difference between bulb and clove

is that bulb is to take the shape of a bulb; to swell while clove is simple past of cleave.

bulb

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
  • the bulb of the aorta
  • 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. .
  • the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs .
  • *
  • (nautical) a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
  • Derived terms

    * lampbulb * light bulb * flash bulb * tulip bulb

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
  • Anagrams

    *

    clove

    English

    Etymology 1

    An alteration of (etyl) (m), from the first component of (etyl) . (wikipedia clove)

    Noun

  • A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
  • ), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
  • (label) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
  • * 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.
  • Seven pounds make a clove', 2 '''cloves''' a stone, 2 stone a tod 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word '''cloves ; it calls them ' ''claves'' or ''nails .' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
  • * 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 169:
  • By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.
    Derived terms
    * (clove camphor) * (clove gillyflower) * clove pink

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), cognate with , hence with the verbal etymology hereafter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic
  • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cleave)
  • Etymology 4

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
  • Usage notes

    * Mainly used in proper names, such as (Kaaterskill Clove) .