Cottage vs Quark - What's the difference?
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A small house; a cot; a hut.
A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
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, title= (UK, slang, dated) A public toilet.
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
(intransitive, British, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
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(particle) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
* 1993 , Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was "quark". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with "cork".) — (James Gleick), Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
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(computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
As nouns the difference between cottage and quark
is that cottage is a small house; a cot; a hut while quark is in the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.As a verb cottage
is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.cottage
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Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage ’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
Usage notes
Sense “public toilet” dates from 19th century, now only in gay slang.Derived terms
* cottage cheese * cottage hospital * cottage industryVerb
(cottag)quark
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(wikipedia quark)Etymology 1
First used in 1963 by one of the theorists who postulated the existence of quarks, Wikipedia article.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity,
