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Glyme vs Glome - What's the difference?

glyme | glome |

As nouns the difference between glyme and glome

is that glyme is (organic compound) dimethoxyethane while glome is (anatomy) one of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot or glome can be (obsolete) gloom.

As a verb glome is

(obsolete) to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.

glyme

English

Noun

(-)
  • (organic compound) dimethoxyethane

    • glome

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (lena) (glomus) a ball. Compare (globe).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
  • (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (glom)
  • (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
    • (Surrey)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) gloom
    • (Webster 1913) ----