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Emo vs Emu - What's the difference?

emo | emu |

As nouns the difference between emo and emu

is that emo is a particular style of hardcore punk rock while emu is a large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.

As an adjective emo

is emotional; sensitive.

As a proper noun Emo

is a village in Ireland.

As an abbreviation emu is

electromagnetic unit.

As an initialism EMU is

with respect to the European Union: Economic and Monetary Union.

emo

English

(wikipedia emo)

Noun

  • A particular style of hardcore punk rock
  • An individual or group of people associated with that subculture and musical style.
  • Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional
  • An individual or group of people associated with a fashion or stereotype of that style of rock.
  • A young person who is considered to be over-emotional or stereotypically emo.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (often, pejorative) Emotional; sensitive.
  • (informal, often, pejorative) Depressed.
  • * 2008 , Vanity Fair (issue 578)
    • Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it.
  • Associated with youth subcultures embodying emotional sensitivity.
  • * 2007 , James A. Reinking, Robert Von Der Osten, Strategies for successful writing
    • The one thing everyone agrees on is that they've never encountered a band that claimed to be emo .
  • * 2012 , Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen
    • Trevor looks kind of emo , rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

    Derived terms

    * emotard

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    emu

    English

    Alternative forms

    * emeu (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae .

    • External links

    * ("emu" on Wikipedia) * (Dromaius novaehollandiae) * (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • electromagnetic unit.
  • * 1943 , Henry Augustus Perkins, College Physics , p. 530:
    • A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu , 5 cm apart.
  • * 1959 , American Geological Institute, Geoscience Abstracts , p. 38:
    • The average intensity is 80 X 10"5 emu /cm3.
  • * 1974 , William Berkson, Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein , p. 168:
    • The amount of charge named by one emu is that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.
  • * 1976 , John Aloysius O'Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin , p. 109:
    • Booker and Harrison (1966) set an upper limit of 10~7 emu /g.
  • * 2005 , Peter Mohn, Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction , p. 39:
    • Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu'/g, '''emu'''/cm3 or ' emu /mole.
  • (computing, video games, informal) emulator
  • * 2005', "Dane L. Galden at at", ''Could this be used for classic '''emus on GBA?'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.video.classic )
    • Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

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