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Phage vs Headful - What's the difference?

phage | headful |

As nouns the difference between phage and headful

is that phage is (microbiology|virology) a virus that is parasitic on bacteria while headful is an amount of information, emotion, etc present in the mind.

As an adjective headful is

(genetics) that fills the head of a phage.

phage

English

Noun

(en-noun)Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann: Phage or phages. Bacteriophage Ecology Group (BEG) News, vol 14, 2002-10-01"The plural word phages' refers to different types of phage, whereas in common usage the word ' phage can be both singular and plural, referring in the plural sense to particles of the same type of phage." Maloy et al: Microbial Genetics, 2nd ed., 1984, ISBN 9780867202489, p. 81
  • (microbiology, virology) A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.

    • Synonyms

    * bacteriophage

    References

    * (wikipedia "phage")

    See also

    * virophage

    Anagrams

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    headful

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An amount of information, emotion, etc. present in the mind.
  • * 1994 , National Storytelling Association (U.S.), Sheila Dailey, Tales as tools: the power of story in the classroom (page 15)
    • The headful of stories you gather over a lifetime lets you refold the time and space of your history into meaningful, tellable patterns.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (genetics) That fills the head of a phage