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Data vs Marrow - What's the difference?

data | marrow |

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

English

Alternative forms

* (electronics)

Noun

(wikipedia data) (-) or plural noun
  • English plurals: Pieces of information.
  • (uncountable, collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context.
  • *
  • 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
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  • (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
  • 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 an international 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 data

    References

    * (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)
  • (lb) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Derived terms
    * bone marrow * marrowbone

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) margr.

    Alternative forms

    * marra

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
  • Cheers marrow !
  • (Scotland) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
  • References

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