Carboline vs Caroline - What's the difference?
carboline | caroline |
(organic compound) Any of four isomeric tricyclic heterocycles consisting of a pyridine ring fused with the five-membered ring of an indole; many of their derivatives have biological action
. Borrowed in the 17th century from the (etyl) form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the (etyl) equivalent of Charles, which came from (etyl) Karl .
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
* 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls : Chapter Forty-Four:
As nouns the difference between carboline and caroline
is that carboline is (organic compound) any of four isomeric tricyclic heterocycles consisting of a pyridine ring fused with the five-membered ring of an indole; many of their derivatives have biological action while caroline is (historical) an old silver coin of italy.carboline
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(Beta-Carboline) (en noun)Anagrams
*caroline
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* CaroleanProper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline'. A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are ' Carolines . That does not, however, wholly proceed from the love of the appellation; though I believe that a queen Margery or a queen Sarah would have had fewer namesakes.
- I used to love saying her name. Caroline', with the "i" always long, because to make it short left it sounding like ''crinoline'', a sweat-stained, mothballed Sunday hat pulled from an attic trunk. But '''Caroline with the "i" long created a sound roughly equivalent to the idea of a ''girl . The echo of a song in its three syllables, an age-old lyric not yet faded from memory.