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Maverick vs Rampant - What's the difference?

maverick | rampant |

As adjectives the difference between maverick and rampant

is that maverick is showing independence in thoughts or actions while rampant is (originally) rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.

As a noun maverick

is an unbranded range animal.

maverick

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
  • He made a maverick decision.
    He is a maverick person.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unbranded range animal.
  • * Around 1900 , O Henry,
  • Long Bill was a graduate of the camp and trail. Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.
  • One who does not abide by rules.
  • One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices.
  • Florence Nightingale would have been perceived as a maverick during her early career, because she was prioritizing hygiene when everybody else involved in healthcare was focused on other things, such as surgery and pills.'' (Source: Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh, ''Trick or Treatment , 2008, p. 36-37.)
  • (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in
  • Synonyms

    * (one who does not abide by rules) individualist, lone gunman, nonconformist, rebel

    See also

    *

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 English eponyms

    rampant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rampaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (originally) Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
  • * The Vienna riding school displays splendid rampant movement.
  • (heraldry) Rearing on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
  • * Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
  • little pieces of moustache on his upper lip, like a pair of minnows rampant
  • (architecture) Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
  • Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
  • * Weeds are rampant in any neglected garden.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant , killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}
  • * 2013 , Phil McNulty, " Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport , 22 September 2013:
  • In contrast to the despair of his opposite number, it was a day of delight for new City boss Manuel Pellegrini as he watched the rampant Blues make a powerful statement about their Premier League ambitions.
  • Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.
  • * There was rampant corruption in the city.
  • Derived terms

    * rampantly * rampant gardant * rampant regardant * rampant sejant, sejant rampant

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