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Facebook vs Meta - What's the difference?

facebook | meta |

As a proper noun facebook

is a social-networking web site, founded in 2004 and originally known as the facebook .

As a verb facebook

is to use the social-networking site.

As an adjective meta is

meta.

facebook

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals’ photographs and names.
  • A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.
    • The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.
  • * 2003 , Steve Hofstetter, Student Body Shots: A Sarcastic Look at the Best 4-6 Years of Your Life
    • There is no interests section in the facebook . You know why? No one wants to flip through a book to find out which girls play chess.

    Derived terms

    * Facebook

    See also

    * yearbook (traditionally published at the end of the academic year)

    Verb

    (en verb)

    • Related terms

    * facebooker

    meta

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Self-referential; at a higher level
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity citation
    • , passage=
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Brendan Vaughan, What Would MacGyver Do? citation
    • , passage=Besides, I can just hear Vaughan: "Very funny, Stacey, very Charlie Kaufman-esque, very meta , very '97. I can't use it." }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • boundary marker
  • Either of the conical columns at each end of a Roman circus

    • Anagrams

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