Keel vs Fossil - What's the difference?
keel | fossil |
(nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
(nautical) Sometimes, a rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
(nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
A material similar to chalk or crayon used to mark pavement.
(zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
(botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
A brewer's cooling vat.
to collapse, to fall
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
(paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
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(linguistics) A fossilized term.
(figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
As nouns the difference between keel and fossil
is that keel is a large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern while fossil is the mineralized remains of an animal or plant.As a verb keel
is to collapse, to fall.keel
English
(wikipedia keel)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* even keel * keelhaul * keel overVerb
(en verb)- He keeled over after having a stroke.
Derived terms
* keel overAnagrams
* ----fossil
English
(wikipedia fossil)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}