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Carnival vs Carnivore - What's the difference?

carnival | carnivore |

As nouns the difference between carnival and carnivore

is that carnival is a festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment while carnivore is any animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet.

As proper nouns the difference between carnival and carnivore

is that carnival is the season just before the beginning of the Roman Catholic season of Lent, when New Orleans has its Mardi Gras carnival while Carnivore is a computer system designed by the FBI to monitor e-mail and electronic communications.

carnival

Noun

(en noun)
  • A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
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  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • (US English) a traveling amusement park, called a funfair in UK English.
  • Derived terms

    * carnival glass * carny * carnivalesque * carnivalistic

    See also

    *

    carnivore

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet.
  • (label) A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.
  • (informal) A person who is not a vegetarian.
  • Usage notes

    Not all meat-eaters (e.g. meat-eating birds and fish) belong to Carnivora, and not all Carnivora are meat-eaters (e.g. giant panda). To avoid the confusion, a new term carnivoran has been introduced to mean "belonging to Carnivora".

    Synonyms

    * meatarian, meatatarian (of people)

    Derived terms

    * obligate carnivore