Bulb vs Spherical - What's the difference?
bulb | spherical |
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.
(label) Shaped like a sphere.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (label) (no comparative or superlative ) Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
(label) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
(label) Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
*1606 : (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , Act 1, Scene 2
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.As a verb bulb
is to take the shape of a bulb; to swell.As an adjective spherical is
(label) shaped like a sphere.bulb
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Noun
(en noun)- the bulb of the aorta
- the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs .
Derived terms
* lampbulb * light bulb * flash bulb * tulip bulbAnagrams
*spherical
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
- Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.