Hello vs Turtle - What's the difference?
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"!" or an equivalent greeting.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 29, author=Stephanie Rosenbloom, title=A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, work=New York Times
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To greet with "hello".
* 2013 , Ivan Doig, English Creek (page 139)
Any land or marine reptile of the order (l), characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body.
(Australia, British) A sea turtle.
(military) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
(computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
(computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
* 1997 , Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing
(printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
* 1919 , Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32?, page 48
To turn and swim upside down.
* 2009 , Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering? , page 149
To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
* 1973 , Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians , page 153
(video games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
A turtle dove.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
As nouns the difference between hello and turtle
is that hello is "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting while turtle is any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body.As verbs the difference between hello and turtle
is that hello is to greet with "hello" while turtle is to flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.As an interjection hello
is A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.As a proper noun Turtle is
a river in Saskatchewan, Canada.hello
English
Alternative forms
* hallo * hilloa (obsolete) * hullo (UK)Interjection
(en interjection)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!'” at the top of my lungs.
Usage notes
* The greeting hello is among the most generic and neutral in use. It may be heard in nearly all social situations and in nearly all walks of life, and is unlikely to cause offense.Quotations
* (English Citations of "hello")Synonyms
* (greeting) ** g'day, hey, hi, ** hallo, hi, hiya, ey up ** hallo, hey, hi, howdy ** how's it going, hey, hi ** howzit ** (slang) wassup, what's up, yo, sup * See alsoAntonyms
* (greeting) bye, goodbyeDerived terms
*See also
* * (wikipedia "hello")Noun
(en noun)citation
Synonyms
* greetingVerb
(en verb)- I had to traipse around somewhat, helloing' people and being ' helloed , before I spotted my mother and my father, sharing shade and a spread blanket with Pete and Marie Reese and Toussaint Rennie near the back of the park.
turtle
English
(wikipedia turtle)Etymology 1
Modification of (etyl) tortue (probably under the influence of (turtledove)). See (tortoise) for more.Noun
(en noun)- Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* African helmeted turtle * Afro-American sideneck turtle * Alabama red-bellied turtle * alligator turtle, alligator-turtle * American turtle * Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles * Arakan forest turtle * Australian short-necked turtle * Austro-American sideneck turtle * black marsh turtle * black turtle bean * Blanding's turtle * bog turtle * box turtle, box-turtle * chicken turtle, chicken-turtle * common snakeneck turtle * cooter turtle * diamond-backed turtle * dragon turtle * eastern long-neck turtle * Fitzroy River turtle * flatback turtle * Florida redbelly turtle * Fly River turtle * golden coin turtle * gopher turtle * greaved turtle * Greenland turtle * green turtle * have a turtle's head * hawk-billed turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle * horned turtle * land turtle * leaf turtle * leather turtle * leatherback turtle * leather-turtle * leathery turtle * loggerhead turtle, logger-headed turtle * lyre turtle * Madagascan big-headed turtle * map turtle * marine turtle * marsh turtle * mata mata turtle, matamata turtle * Mary River turtle * mock turtle * mock turtle soup * mud turtle * musk turtle * New Guinea snakeneck turtle * Olive Ridley turtle * painted turtle * pancake turtle * pig-nosed turtle, pig-nose turtle, pignose turtle * pitted-shelled turtle * plateless turtle * Plymouth redbelly turtle * pond turtle * purple turtler * red-bellied turtle * river turtle * roofed turtle * sea turtle, sea-turtle * side-necked turtle * silver stater with a turtle * snake-eating turtle * snake-necked turtle * snapping turtle, snapping-turtle * soft-shelled turtle, soft-shell turtle, softshell turtle * spiny turtle * spotted turtle * toad-headed turtle * twisted-necked turtle * tortoise-shell turtle * trunk turtle, trunk-turtle * turn the turtle * turn turtle * turning turtles * turtle-back, turtleback * turtle bean * turtleburger * turtle-corral * turtle cowrie, turtle cowry * turtle-crab * turtle-crawl * turtle-deck * turtledom * turtle-egging * turtle excluder device * turtle-footed * turtle-frolic * turtle graphics * turtle grass, turtle-grass * turtle-head, turtlehead * turtle hull * turtle-insect * turtle-kraal * turtle neck, turtle-neck, turtleneck * turtle peg, turtle-peg * turtle-press * turtler * turtle racing * turtles all the way down * turtle shell * turtle ship * turtle soup * turtle stone * turtle-shell * turtle-soup * turtle-stone * turtlet * turtle trade * turtle-twine * turtling * turtly * water turtle * western swamp turtle * wood turtleVerb
(turtl)- Were speeding when car turtled' Auto crashed into curb and ' turtled .
- I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.
- Of these, 80 turtled' (65%), 26 hunted and ' turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).
See also
* chelonian * hatchling (turtle young) * terrapin * tortoise * (Turtle)Etymology 2
(etyl) turtla, ultimately from (etyl) , of imitative origin.Noun
(en noun)- The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck .
