Highball vs Chameleon - What's the difference?
highball | chameleon |
A cocktail made from spirit plus soda water etc.
(rail transport) An all clear'' or ''full speed ahead signal.
To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
(slang, rare, or, erroneous) To move quickly; to hightail.
A small to mid-size reptile, of the family Chamaeleonidae , and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue.
A person with inconstant behavior; one able to quickly adjust to new circumstances.
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(physics) A hypothetical scalar particle with a non-linear self-interaction, giving it an effective mass that depends on its environment: the presence of other fields.
Describing something that changes color.
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As nouns the difference between highball and chameleon
is that highball is a cocktail made from spirit plus soda water etc while chameleon is chameleon.As a verb highball
is to make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.highball
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*highball glassDescendants
* Japanese:Verb
(en verb)- If we highball the price, it comes out to $240. If we lowball it, it's closer to $200.
Antonyms
* (estimate) lowballchameleon
English
(wikipedia chameleon)Alternative forms
* chamaeleon *Noun
(en noun)Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
- He is a political chameleon , as charming to business leaders he met privately in Aberdeen on Friday night as he has been inspiring to distressed and desperate Labour defectors in Glasgow and beyond.
Adjective
(-)- The wall was covered with a chameleon paint.