As nouns the difference between elephant and trapezium
is that elephant is a mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw while trapezium is a four-sided polygon with two sides parallel; a trapezoid (modern sense.
elephant
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A mammal of the order Proboscidea , having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
(figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.
(paper, printing) A printing-paper size measuring 30 inches x 22 inches.
(British, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second.
- Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant''', two '''elephant''', three '''elephant ...
(obsolete) ivory
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* (animal) Elephas maximus'', ''Loxodonta africana
* (counting term) see
Hyponyms
* (animal) African bush elephant, African forest elephant, Indian elephant, African elephant
Derived terms
* African bush elephant
* African elephant
* African forest elephant
* Asian elephant
* Asiatic elephant
* Borneo elephant, Borneo pygmy elephant
* double elephant, double elephant paper
* dwarf elephant
* elephant apple
* elephant bed
* elephant beetle
* elephant bird, elephantbird
* elephant chess
* elephant-color, elephant-colour
* elephant cord
* elephant creeper
* elephant ear, elephant ears
* elephant fish
* elephant flipping
* elephant folio
* Elephant Gambit
* elephant garlic
* elephant grass
* elephant-gravel
* elephant-gray, elephant-grey
* elephant gun
*
* elephant hawk moth
* elephanticide
* elephantide
* elephant in Cairo
* elephant in the corner, elephant in the kitchen, elephant in the living room, elephant in the room
* (Elephant Island)
* elephantitis
* elephant joke
* elephant juice
* elephant leg
* (Elephant Man)
* elephant man's disease
* elephant man's syndrome
* elephant on the dinner table
* elephant paper
* elephant-path
* elephant pearl
* elephant polo
* elephant-rain
* elephantry
* elephant's breath
* elephant seal
* elephant's ear, elephant's ears
* elephant's foot
* elephant's foot umbrella stand
* elephant's-grass
* elephants' graveyard
* elephantship
* elephant shrew
* elephant's teeth
* elephant's trunk, elephant trunk
* Elephant's Trunk Nebula
* elephant's trunk plant
* elephant's trunk snake
* elephant's tusk
* elephant's-tusks
* elephant's-vine
* elephant test
* elephant trank
* elephant tranquilizer, elephant tranquilliser, elephant tranquillizer
* Elephant Trap
* elephant tree
* elephant-trumpet
* elephant-trunk fish
* Elephant Trunk nebula
* elephant-tusk
* elephant yam
*
* forest elephant
* get a look at the elephant
* imperial elephant
* Indian elephant
* Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant
* Order of the Elephant
* pad elephant
* pink elephant
* pink elephants
* pseudelephant
* pygmy elephant
* retail elephant
* rogue elephant
* savanna elephant, savannah elephant
* sea elephant
* see the elephant
* show the elephant
* Sri Lankan elephant
* straight-tusked elephant
* Sumatran elephant
* temple elephant
* war elephant
* water elephant
* white elephant
Related terms
* chryselephantine
* elephancy
* elephanta
* elephanter
* elephantiac
* elephantiasis
* elephantic
* Elephantidae
* elephantine
* elephantoid
* Elephantopus
* Elephas
trapezium
English
Noun
(en-noun)
(geometry, British) A four-sided polygon with two sides parallel; a trapezoid (modern sense)
(geometry, US) A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
(anatomy) The trapezium bone of the wrist.
A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
Usage notes
* The terms (trapezium) and (trapezoid) have partially swapped meanings in the US and Canada as compared with the rest of the world.
Synonyms
* (US) trapezoid
* (British) irregular quadrilateral.
