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Milt vs Bladder - What's the difference?

milt | bladder |

In lang=en terms the difference between milt and bladder

is that milt is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt while bladder is to store or put up in bladders.

As nouns the difference between milt and bladder

is that milt is the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food while bladder is (zoology) a flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.

As verbs the difference between milt and bladder

is that milt is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt while bladder is to swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

milt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
  • *, II.12:
    • we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt , another in the braine.
  • * 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
    • Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.
  • Fish semen.

    • Derived terms

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    Related terms

    * *

    Synonyms

    * (fish semen) soft roe, white roe

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

    • bladder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
  • (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
  • (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
  • The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
  • A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
  • (figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
  • * Rochester
    • to swim with bladders of philosophy

    Synonyms

    * vesica

    Derived terms

    * air bladder * bladdered * bladderpod * bladderwrack * gall bladder * gas bladder * shy bladder * swim bladder * urinary bladder

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
  • To store or put up in bladders.
    • bladdered lard
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