Calculator vs Xylophone - What's the difference?
calculator | xylophone |
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.
a musical instrument made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like hammer.
As nouns the difference between calculator and xylophone
is that calculator is a mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations while xylophone is .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) ----xylophone
English
(wikipedia xylophone)Noun
(en noun)- All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?
