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Chef vs Ansible - What's the difference?

chef | ansible |

As nouns the difference between chef and ansible

is that chef is boss while ansible is (science fiction) a hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device.

chef

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household
  • *<1845 , R. H. Barham, Blasphemer's Warning'' in ''Ingoldsby Legends (1847), 3rd Ser., 245
  • *:The Chef' s peace of mind was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board.
  • The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment
  • *1849 , Thackeray, Pendennis (1850), I. xxviii. 266
  • *:The angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.
  • Any cook
  • *Kiss the chef

    • Usage notes

    When used in reference to a cook with no sous-chefs or other workers beneath him, the term is connotes a certain degree of prestige—whether culinary education or ability—distinguishing the chef from a “cook”. As a borrowing, chef was originally italicized, but such treatment is now obsolete.

    Synonyms

    * (head cook) cook

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    ansible

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (science fiction) A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device.
  • * 1966 , '', reprinted in ''Worlds of Exile and Illusion , Macmillan (1996), ISBN 978-0-312-86211-4, page 25:
    • “You remember the ansible , the machine I showed you in the ship, which can speak instantly to other worlds, with no loss of years–”
  • * 1985 , , reprinted by Macmillan (2002), ISBN 978-0-765-34229-4, page 251:
    • “”
  • * 2008 , , Victory Conditions , reprint by Random House (2009), ISBN 9780345491626, page 39,
    • Ky had allotted two hours here, time to strip the news from the ansible , share it, even discuss it, but she didn’t plan to have everyone clustered and vulnerable.

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