Bullshit vs Affinity - What's the difference?
bullshit | affinity |
(literally) The faeces of a bull.
(vulgar, slang) False or exaggerated statements made to impress and deceive the listener rather than inform; nonsense.
(vulgar, slang) A card game in which the object is to bluff about cards laid down and to determine when one's opponents are bluffing; also known as "BS", "Cheat" or "I Doubt It".
(vulgar, slang) An object of frustration and/or disgust, often caused by a perceived deception.
(vulgar, slang) Absurd, irrational, or nonsensical. Most often said of speech, information, or content.
(vulgar, slang) To tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive.
(vulgar, slang) To have casual conversation with no real point.
(vulgar, slang) To come up with on the spot, to improvise poorly.
(vulgar, slang)
A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister).
A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865):
Any romantic relationship.
Any passionate love for something.
(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
As nouns the difference between bullshit and affinity
is that bullshit is (literally) the faeces of a bull while affinity is a natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.As an adjective bullshit
is (vulgar|slang) absurd, irrational, or nonsensical most often said of speech, information, or content.As a verb bullshit
is (vulgar|slang) to tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive.As an interjection bullshit
is (vulgar|slang).bullshit
English
(wikipedia bullshit)Noun
(-)- Don't pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit .
- Anyone want to play a few hands of bullshit ?
- That's total bullshit ! I called your office and they said you never came in!
See also
* bullcrap * horseshit * See alsoSynonyms
* BS * bull * bulldada * bull puckey * bushwah * (card game) cheat, I doubt itDerived terms
* bullshido * bullshitter * bullshitty * bullshoot * bullshotAdjective
(en adjective)- That's the most bullshit excuse I've ever heard.
Verb
- I think you're bullshitting . Let’s just call your office and see if you even came in.
- You’re bullshitting me. I called your office and you never even came in.
- He caught my attention with irrelevant asides that didn’t quite make sense, but sounded very erudite if you didn’t think about it too much. In other words, I noticed that he was bullshitting . http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002815.php
- I will probably just go and bullshit with Joe for awhile.
- We just went on stage and bullshitted the whole concert because we didn't know any songs.
Interjection
affinity
English
Noun
(wikipedia affinity) (affinities)- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities' — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.