Orc vs Human - What's the difference?
orc | human |
(fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive.
* 1656 , Samuel Holland, Don Zara del Fogo , I.1:
* 1834 , "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:
* 1954 , (JRR Tolkien), The Fellowship of the Ring :
(notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 * 2011 August 17, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.,
A human being, whether man, woman or child.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= (lb) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
* 2013 , Biosocial Becomings (ISBN 110702563X), page 19:
* 1911 , The collected works of Ambrose Bierce , volume 9, page 362:
As nouns the difference between orc and human
is that orc is any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale or orc can be (fantasy|mythology) a mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive while human is a human being, whether man, woman or child.As an adjective human is
(notcomp) of or belonging to the species homo sapiens or its closest relatives.As a verb human is
(lb) to behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.orc
English
(wikipedia orc)Etymology 1
From (etyl) orque, (etyl) orca, and their source, (etyl) .Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke , begotten by an Incubus.
- The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
- There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.
See also
* goblin * trollAnagrams
* * * * ----human
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
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- Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* human behaviour * human being * human botfly * human capital * human chattel * human chorionic gonadotropin * human-computer interaction * human condition * human death * human development * Human Genome Project * human immunodeficiency virus * human insulin * human interest * humanism * humanist * humanization * humanize * humanizer * human knot * human kind, humankind * humanly * human movement * human nature * humanoid * human papillomavirus * human pyramid * human race * human relations * human resources (HR) * human rights * human trafficking * inhuman * inhumane * nonhuman, non-human * to err is human (human)Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
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Verb
(en verb)- There are, then, many ways of humaning : these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.