Cod vs Standard - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cod and standard

is that cod is a small bag or pouch while standard is a principle or example or measure used for comparison.

As adjectives the difference between cod and standard

is that cod is having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives) while standard is falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

As a verb cod

is to attempt to deceive or confuse.

cod

English

(wikipedia cod)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) codd, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A small bag or pouch.

(Halliwell)

(UK, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:

And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes , that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.

(Mortimer)

The scrotum (also in plural).

* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.4:

that which we call castoreum are not the same to be termed testicles or stones; for these cods or follicles are found in both sexes, though somewhat more protuberant in the male.

(obsolete) A pillow or cushion.

(Halliwell)

Derived terms

* codpiece

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately the same as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

A marine fish of the family Gadidae.

A marine fish resembling a cod of the genus Gadus , such as the .

Derived terms

* bay cod * codfish * codling * cod liver oil * rock cod * shore cod

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

Noun

(en noun)

A joke or an imitation.

I assume it all could just be a cod .

A stupid or foolish person.

He's making a right cod of himself.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).

“Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.

Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod -classical bombast”.

Verb

(slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

Derived terms

* codswallop

Anagrams

* * * * English invariant nouns English nouns with irregular plurals ----

standard

English

Noun

(en noun)

A principle or example or measure used for comparison.

# A level of quality or attainment.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

# Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.

#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

the court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech

#* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

# A musical work of established popularity.

# A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.

# The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.

#* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)

By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.

# A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.

A vertical pole with something at its apex.

# An object supported in an upright position, such as a .

#* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, chapter=Foreword, title= The China Governess , passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}

# The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.

#* Fairfax

His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.

# One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.

# Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.

# A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.

#* Sir W. Temple

In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards , some against walls.

# The sheth of a plough.

A manual transmission vehicle.

(botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

(shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

A large drinking cup.

(Greene)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

(of a tree or shrub) Growing on an erect stem of full height.

Having recognized excellence or authority.

standard''' works in history; '''standard authors

Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.

(not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.

As normally supplied (not optional).

Antonyms

* nonstandard

Derived terms

* bog standard * gold standard * double standard * standard-bearer * standard fare * standard gauge * standard lamp * standard language * Standard Model * standard of living * standard poodle * standard time * standard transmission * standard deviation * time standard