Cod vs Coda - What's the difference?
cod | coda |
(obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
(UK, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
The scrotum (also in plural).
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.4:
(obsolete) A pillow or cushion.
A marine fish of the family Gadidae.
A marine fish resembling a cod of the genus Gadus , such as the .
A joke or an imitation.
A stupid or foolish person.
Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
(slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.
(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
(linguistics) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
(geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
The conclusion of a statement.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
As a noun coda is
a person born hearing to deaf parents.cod
English
(wikipedia cod)Etymology 1
From (etyl) codd, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
- And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes , that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.
- (Mortimer)
- 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.
- (Halliwell)
Derived terms
* codpieceEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately the same as Etymology 1, above.Noun
Derived terms
* bay cod * codfish * codling * cod liver oil * rock cod * shore codEtymology 3
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- I assume it all could just be a cod .
- He's making a right cod of himself.
Adjective
(en adjective)- “Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.
- Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod -classical bombast”.
Verb
Derived terms
* codswallopcoda
English
Noun
(en noun)- The word ''salts'' has three consonants — ''/l/'', ''/t/'', and ''/s/'' — in its coda''', whereas the word ''glee'' has no '''coda at all.
- In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.