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Bugle vs Bulge - What's the difference?

bugle | bulge |

Bulge is a anagram of bugle.



As nouns the difference between bugle and bulge

is that bugle is a horn used by hunters while bulge is something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.

As verbs the difference between bugle and bulge

is that bugle is to announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle while bulge is to stick out from (a surface).

As an adjective bugle

is jet-black.

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

    * ----

    bulge

    English

    (wikipedia bulge)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
    • a bulge in a wall
    a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet
  • The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
  • (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.

    • See also

    *

    Verb

    (bulg)
  • To stick out from (a surface).
    • The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.
    He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • The wind actually stirred the cloth on the chest of drawers, and let in a little light, so that the sharp edge of the chest of drawers was visible, running straight up, until a white shape bulged out; and a silver streak showed in the looking-glass.
  • To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
  • * Broome
    • And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.

    Anagrams

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