Data vs Marrow - What's the difference?
data | marrow |
English plurals: Pieces of information.
(uncountable, collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context.
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, title= (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
(lb) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(lb) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.
*1847 , Sir (Robert Hermann Schomburgk), "Steam-Boat Voyage to Barbados", Bentley's Miscellany , Vol XXII, London: Richard Bentley, p.37:
*:The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow , were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.
The essence; the best part.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:It takes from our achievements/ The pith and marrow of our attribute.
*(Thomas Tusser) (1524-1580)
*:Chopping and changing I cannot commend, / With thief or his marrow , for fear of ill end.
(Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
(Scotland) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
As nouns the difference between data and marrow
is that data is (time) date while marrow is (lb) the substance inside bones which produces blood cells or marrow can be (geordie|informal) a friend, pal, buddy, mate.data
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Alternative forms
* (electronics)Noun
(wikipedia data) (-) or plural noun- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
Usage notes
* This word is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. * The definition of data'' in the computing context is from aninternational standard vocabulary] and is meant to distinguish ''data'' from ''information. However, this distinction is largely ignored by the computing profession.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/1/Cm1My.pdf
Derived terms
* big data * databank * database * datasheet * data acquisition * data analysis * data domain * data element * data entry * data farming * data hiding * data integrity * data maintenance * data management * data mining * data modeling * data path, datapath * data processing * data recovery * data set * data sink * data source * data warehouse * metadata * primary data * raw dataReferences
* (The American Heritage Dictionary's usage note on 'data') *Calpundit: YOU SAY DAY-TA, I SAY DAA-TA*
John Quiggin: Data is not the plural of datum*
johnaugust.com: ‘Data’ is singular
marrow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mary, marow, marowe, , Icelandic (m), and also Russian ("brain").Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bone marrow * marrowboneEtymology 2
From (etyl) margr.Alternative forms
* marraNoun
(en noun)- Cheers marrow !