Mastiff vs Beetle - What's the difference?
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A large breed of dog. Often confused to be part of a type of large dogs. The Mastiff is a breed of its own that is sometimes referred to as an "English Mastiff". Other breeds have Mastiff in their informal name such as "French Mastiff" for Dogue de Bordeaux or include Mastiff in their breed names; Tibetan Mastiff or Neapolitan Mastiff. All are different breeds as well as the often confused Bullmastiff.
* 1605: , Act III, Scene VI
* 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 98
Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
(uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
* 1944 , Queen's Nurses' Magazine (volumes 33-35, page 12)
To move away quickly, to scurry away.
* {{quote-book
, year=1983
, author=
, title=(Gaudy Night)
, publisher=Mountaineers Books
* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, author=
, title=(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
, chapter=The Department of Mysteries
, isbn=9780439358064
, page=766
, passage=In the falling darkness Harry saw small collections of lights as they passed over more villages, then a winding road on which a single car was beetling its way home through the hills. …}}
* {{quote-book
, year=2005
, author=(James Doss)
, title=The Witch's Tongue
, isbn=9780312991081
, page=178
, passage=Her eyes still closed, his aunt smiled cruelly. “I know what you are dying to say, Bertie. Go ahead—take the cheap shot. I’ll squash you like the nasty little bug you are.” ¶ Thus chastened, the little man beetled away.}}
To loom over; to extend or jut.
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
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, year=1858
, author=Dean of Pimlico
, title=A Story for the New Year
, date=January-March
, volume=56 (volume 20 of the second series)
, page=63
, magazine=Dublin University Magazine reprinted in Littell's Living Age
, publisher=Littell, Son & Company
* {{quote-book
, year=1941
, author=Chapman Miske
, title=The Thing in the Moonlight
, passage=Impelled by some obscure quest, I ascended a rift or cleft in this beetling precipice, noting as I did so the black mouths of many fearsome burrows extending from both walls into the depths of the stony plateau.}}
A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
To beat with a heavy mallet.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
As nouns the difference between mastiff and beetle
is that mastiff is a large breed of dog often confused to be part of a type of large dogs the mastiff is a breed of its own that is sometimes referred to as an "english mastiff" other breeds have mastiff in their informal name such as "french mastiff" for dogue de bordeaux or include mastiff in their breed names; tibetan mastiff or neapolitan mastiff all are different breeds as well as the often confused bullmastiff while beetle is any of numerous species of insect in the order coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest or beetle can be a type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.As a verb beetle is
to move away quickly, to scurry away or beetle can be to loom over; to extend or jut or beetle can be to beat with a heavy mallet.As an adjective beetle is
protruding, jutting, overhanging (as in beetle brows ).mastiff
English
(wikipedia mastiff)Noun
(en noun)- Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff , greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or him.
- A mastiff lay extended against a battered door.
Hypernyms
* (l)beetle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bitle, bityl, bytylle, from (etyl) bitula, bitela, .Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Guessing competitions were tackled with much enthusiasm, followed by a beetle drive, and judging by the laughter, this was popular with all.
Synonyms
* (insect) bugDerived terms
* beetle-browed * Christmas beetle * click beetle * Colorado beetle * deathwatch beetle * dung beetle * huhu beetle * lady beetle * oil beetle * rhinoceros beetle * rove beetle * stag beetle * water beetle * whirligig beetleSee also
* bug * firefly * ladybird * scarabVerb
- He beetled off on his vacation.
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Possibly after , from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.Verb
(beetl)- The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.
- To the dreadful summit of the cliff / That beetles o'er his base into the sea.
- Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
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Etymology 3
(etyl) betel, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Verb
(beetl)- to beetle cotton goods