Melon vs Bag - What's the difference?
melon | bag |
(countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
# Genus Cucurbita , various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
# Genus , the watermelon and others
# Genus Benincasa , a winter melon
# Genus , the bitter melon
(uncountable) The fruit of such plants.
(uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
(in the plural, slang) Breasts.
* 2013 , K. L. Brady, Got a Right to Be Wrong (page 107)
(countable, slang) The head.
(countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
(countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
(chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.
A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
(label) A handbag
A suitcase.
A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
One’s preference.
(label) An ugly woman.
(label) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(label) First, second, or third base.
(label) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(label) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
A scrotum.
(label) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
To put into a bag.
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
(label) To furnish or load with a bag.
* Dryden
To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
To laugh uncontrollably.
To criticise sarcastically.
(label) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To swell or hang down like a full bag.
To swell with arrogance.
To become pregnant.
As nouns the difference between melon and bag
is that melon is melon while bag is a flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.As a verb bag is
to put into a bag.melon
English
(wikipedia melon)Etymology 1
(etyl) melon, from .Noun
- “Wait a minute.” I said. “James with another woman? Mommy, that doesn't even sound right?” “It's true. I caught him squeezing her melons .”
Adjective
Derived terms
* * melon beetle * melon cactus * * melon thistle * * * * * * *See also
* calabash * cantaloupe * casaba * crenshaw * melinite * spanspek *Etymology 2
Noun
(-)Anagrams
* (l) ----bag
English
(wikipedia bag)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (flexible container) poke (obsolete), sack, tote * (handbag) handbag, purse (US) * (preference) cup of tea, thing * (ugly woman) dog, hag * (in mathematics) multisetHyponyms
* (flexible container) bindleVerb
(bagg)- (Chaucer)