Calculator vs Food - What's the difference?
calculator | food |
A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations.
(dated) A person who performs mathematical calculation
A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
(obsolete) A set of mathematical tables.
(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable) A foodstuff.
(uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Wordsworth)
As nouns the difference between calculator and food
is that calculator is a mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations while food is (uncountable) any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.calculator
English
(wikipedia calculator)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (electronic device) electronic calculator, pocket calculator * (mechanical device) adding machine * (person who performs mathematical calculations) computer (dated) * (person who schemes) plotter, schemer * (mathematical tables) ready reckoner, tablesDerived terms
* electronic calculator * pocket calculatorSee also
* ready reckoner * slide rule * tables * (commonslite) ----food
English
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- This may prove food to my displeasure.
- In this moment there is life and food / For future years.