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Bullion vs Nugget - What's the difference?

bullion | nugget |

As nouns the difference between bullion and nugget

is that bullion is a bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots while nugget is (countable) a small, compact chunk or clump.

bullion

English

Noun

  • A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
  • (obsolete) base or uncurrent coin
  • * Sylvester
    • And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, / And damn for bullion , go for current now.
  • (obsolete) showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
  • * Skelton
    • The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound.
  • (obsolete) A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
    • (Webster 1913)

    nugget

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.
    • a gold nugget
  • (countable) A tidbit of something valuable.
    • a nugget of wisdom
  • (uncountable) A type of boot polish.
  • (countable) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant.
  • (countable, slang) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
  • * 2009 , Nick Scipio, Nereids :
    • Jack stifled a smirk at the ensign's expressionless non-reaction. He'd been a nugget himself once, the new guy fresh from training.
  • (comptheory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.
  • * 2002 , Data Mining: A Heuristic Approach (page 93)
    • We have previously said that the heuristic algorithms produce good nuggets for most classes and most ? values

    Derived terms

    * nuggety * chicken nugget