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Medusa vs Beetle - What's the difference?

medusa | beetle |

As verbs the difference between medusa and beetle

is that medusa is while 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 a noun 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 an adjective beetle is

protruding, jutting, overhanging (as in beetle brows ).

medusa

English

(wikipedia Medusa)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Greek mythology): The only mortal of the three gorgon sisters. She is killed by Perseus. The other two sisters were Euryale and Stheno.
  • * 1895 , , (w) (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art , 2010, ISBN 9781108017121, page 201,
    • On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa' in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (''supra'', p. 158) that ' Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this vase, for the vase-painters never invent such bold novelties for themselves.
  • * 2000 , Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion , page 62,
    • It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa , is a narrative version of ritual.
  • * 2001', Dennis Berthold, ''Melville's '''Medusas'' , in Sanford E. Marovitz, Athanasios C. Christodoulou (editors), ''Melville "Among the nations": Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997 ,
    • But their depictions of Perseus are remarkably different and demonstrate the ambiguity of Medusa' that was seeping into Victorian iconography. In later, Roman versions of the myth, for example Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', Perseus slays the sea monster with his sword instead of using ' Medusa ’s head to petrify the monster.

    Derived terms

    * medusafish * medusahead * medusal

    See also

    * * Euryale * Stheno

    Anagrams

    * ----

    beetle

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bitle, bityl, bytylle, from (etyl) bitula, bitela, .

    Alternative forms

    * (all obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)
    • Guessing competitions were tackled with much enthusiasm, followed by a beetle drive, and judging by the laughter, this was popular with all.
    Synonyms
    * (insect) bug
    Derived 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 beetle

    See also

    * bug * firefly * ladybird * scarab

    Verb

  • To move away quickly, to scurry away.
    • He beetled off on his vacation.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1983 , author= , title=(Gaudy Night) , publisher=Mountaineers Books citation , isbn=978-0-380-01207-7 , page=144 , passage=“
  • * {{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.}}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Possibly after , from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Protruding, jutting, overhanging. (As in beetle brows .)

    • Verb

    (beetl)
  • To loom over; to extend or jut.
    • The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To the dreadful summit of the cliff / That beetles o'er his base into the sea.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , 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 citation , passage=I was indeed gently affected, and shared his fears, remembering well the bulging walls of the old house, and the toppling mass of heavy chimney work which beetled over the roof, beneath which these poor doves had made their nest. }}
  • * {{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.}}

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) betel, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • (Knight)

    Verb

    (beetl)
  • To beat with a heavy mallet.
  • To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
    • to beetle cotton goods