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Delt vs Deltoideus - What's the difference?

delt | deltoideus | Derived terms |

Deltoideus is a derived term of delt.



As nouns the difference between delt and deltoideus

is that delt is shoulder while deltoideus is short for deltoideus muscle much as deltoid is used as short for deltoid muscle.

As a verb delt

is an archaic spelling of lang=en.

As an adjective deltoideus is

like a triangle, triangular.

delt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) Shoulder
  • * 2005 , F. Paul Wilson, Midnight Mass? , page 67
    • she had this tat of a devil face sticking out a Gene Simmons-class tongue on her left delt .

    Synonyms

    * (shoulder) shoulder

    Related terms

    * delts

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1589, author=Anonymous, title=A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Here now they cry out, that the Commaunders of our Fleete haue delt iniuriously with them, they exclaime that the leagues are broken, that their old priuiledges in England are violated, which they chalenge to belong to their Cities, and ought to be kept and mainteined. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1597, author=King James I, title=Daemonologie., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=PHILOMATHES. Indeede there is cause inough, but rather to leaue him at all, then to runne more plainlie to him, if they were wise he delt with. }} ----

    deltoideus

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a triangle, triangular.

    • Noun

    (deltoidei)
  • Short for deltoideus muscle much as deltoid is used as short for deltoid muscle.

    • Derived terms

    * deltoid, deltoids * delt, delts

    References

    * Encylopedia Brittanica ----