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Coliform vs Collegiate - What's the difference?

coliform | collegiate |

As adjectives the difference between coliform and collegiate

is that coliform is of or pertaining to the bacteria that inhabit the intestines (especially the colon) of mammals while collegiate is of, or relating to a college, or college students.

As nouns the difference between coliform and collegiate

is that coliform is such a bacterium while collegiate is (obsolete) a member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.

coliform

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to the bacteria that inhabit the intestines (especially the colon) of mammals

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Such a bacterium

    • collegiate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
  • Collegial.

    • Derived terms

    * collegiate church * collegiately

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
  • (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
  • * , II.2.4:
    • those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate , good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].
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