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Feces vs Ketchup - What's the difference?

feces | ketchup |

As nouns the difference between feces and ketchup

is that feces is digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement while ketchup is a tomato-vinegar based sauce.

As a verb ketchup is

{{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To cover with ketchup.

feces

English

(wikipedia feces)

Alternative forms

* faeces (British), (archaic)

Noun

(en-plural noun) (North American spelling)
  • Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement.
  • Usage notes

    * This word can be used with plural verbs ("feces have a strong smell") or singular ones ("feces has a strong smell"). Use with plural verbs is more common, especially in Britain, and is the only use recognized by some dictionaries,

    Synonyms

    * (discharged animal waste) excrement, faecal matter, guano (of birds or bats only), manure (not used of human faeces) * night soil (euphemistic) * doo, poo, poop, boo-boo, and doody (euphemistic or hypocoristic) * crap, shit, turd, log (vulgar) * See also

    References

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    ketchup

    Alternative forms

    * catsup * catchup (obsolete)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A tomato-vinegar based sauce.
  • # and garlic.
  • (countable) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes), or a specific brand or kind of such sauce – see usage notes below.
  • fish ketchup'''; fruit '''ketchup'''; mushroom '''ketchup

    Usage notes

    The term is now used almost exclusively to refer to tomato ketchup. However, at one time it was a more general term for sauce, and it is still occasionally used in this way, as with grape ketchup and mushroom ketchup. The spelling ketchup' became significantly preferred in the United States due to the popularity of (Heinz Tomato Ketchup), which used this spelling since shortly after its introduction in 1876 (after earlier using catsup) to distinguish itself from competitors. Other major brands, such as Hunt, subsequently followed, with Del Monte only switching to '''ketchup in 1988.Is There a Difference Between Ketchup and Catsup?”, ''Slate, Aisha Harris, April 22, 2013

    Verb

    (ketchupp)
  • To cover with ketchup.
  • * 1867 , John Maddison Morton, Aunt Charlotte's maid: a farce in one act
  • It strikes me she's "ketchupped " the lot! I won't touch a morsel!
  • * 1973 , Horizon (page 15)
  • "Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it tries to immortalize."
  • * 2009 , David Silverman, Twinkle (page 4)
  • Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.

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