Egg vs Triangle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between egg and triangle

is that egg is an approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development while triangle is a polygon with three sides and three angles.

As a verb egg

is to throw eggs at.

As a proper noun Triangle is

the area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive.

egg

English

(wikipedia egg)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.

(countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.

(uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.

(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

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Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.

A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.

(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).

(NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.

In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.

Verb

(en verb)

To throw eggs at.

To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).

To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.

After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.

Derived terms

* * * * * * * * * * * egg-nog, eggnog * egg-shell, eggshell * * * * * * * * * * * * * scrambled egg, scrambled eggs *

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To encourage, incite.

Derived terms

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triangle

English

Noun

(en noun)

(geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.

(music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.

(cue sports) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.

A love triangle.

* 2009 , Neil McDonald, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104:

One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.

(systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.

A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

(historical) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.

Synonyms

* (polygon) trigon (rare) * (love triangle) love triangle, * See also

Derived terms

* acute-angled triangle * acute triangle * anal triangle * Bermuda Triangle * black triangle * circular triangle * cyclic triangle * Devil's Triangle * equilateral triangle * eternal triangle * femoral triangle * golden triangle * Golden Triangle * isosceles triangle * love triangle * North Atlantic Triangle * obtuse-angled triangle * obtuse triangle * Pascal's triangle * Polynesian Triangle * pubic triangle * Reuleaux triangle * right-angled triangle * right triangle * scalene triangle * set triangle * Sierpinski triangle * spherical triangle * star-triangle relation * Sunni Triangle * triangle choke * triangle inequality * triangle offense * triangle piercing * triangle test * triangle wave * triangular * triangular distribution * triangular function * triangular prism * triangulate * triangulation

External links

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