Macaroni vs Spaghetti - What's the difference?
macaroni | spaghetti |
(uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely , pasta in general.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
* 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon), Mason & Dixon :
A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
Informally, any type of pasta.
Electrical insulating tubing.
Anything tangled or confusing.
A short form of spaghetti code .
As nouns the difference between macaroni and spaghetti
is that macaroni is a type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general while spaghetti is a type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.macaroni
English
(wikipedia macaroni)Noun
(en noun)- Delicate lace ruffles fell over the lean yellow hands that were so overladen with rings. He had been a macaroni of the eighteenth century, and the friend, in his youth, of Lord Ferrars.
- A small, noisy party of Fops, Macaronis , or Lunarians,—it is difficult quite to distinguish which,—has been working its way up the street.