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Rhumbus vs Lozenge - What's the difference?

rhumbus | lozenge |

As a noun lozenge is

(shapes) (heraldiccharge) a quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.

As a verb lozenge is

to form into the shape of a lozenge.

rhumbus

Not English

Rhumbus has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

lozenge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (shapes) (heraldiccharge) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.
  • * 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus , Folio Society 2007, p. 167:
  • Wherein the decussis'' is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a ''Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...].
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 14:
  • The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.
  • A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a (soplink).
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

    Synonyms

    * (quadrilateral) diamond (informal), rhomb, rhombus (most common in mathematics) * (medicated sweet) pastille, throat pastille, troche

    Verb

    (lozeng)
  • To form into the shape of a lozenge.
  • To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.