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Money vs Dolphin - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between money and dolphin

is that money is a legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply while dolphin is a carnivorous aquatic mammal inhabiting mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans or dolphin can be (nautical) a man-made semi submerged maritime structure, usually installed to provide a fixed structure for temporary mooring, to prevent ships from drifting to shallow water or to serve as base for navigational aids.

money

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(money)

Noun

(wikipedia money)
  • A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
  • A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
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  • A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
  • Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
  • The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
  • Wealth.
  • An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
  • A person who funds an operation.
  • (as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary.
  • Synonyms

    * beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga * (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value) * (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value) * (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins) * See also

    Derived terms

    * bad money * bank money * bar money * black money * blood money * bullet money * call money * cash money * caution money * checkbook money * coat money * conduct money * conscience money * cost of money * credit money * current money * deposit money * dirty money * dispatch money * door money * earnest money * easy money * even money * fiat money * folding money * foreign money * front money * full-bodied money * fun money * funny money * get one's money's worth * gun money * hard money * head money * hot money * house money * hush money * if money * in the money * key money * lawful money * mad money * maundy money * money belt * money broker * money changer * money changing * money chest * money clip * money cowrie * money crop * money doesn't grow on trees * money economy * money illusion * money laundering * moneymaker * money makes the world go round * money market * money of account * money order * money pit * money plant * money rate * money scrivener * money supply * money spider * money spinner * money's worth * Monopoly money * near-money * necessity money * neutral money * new money * old money * paper money * pin money * plastic money * plate money * play money * pocket money * power of money * price of money * prize money * protection money * push money * ready money * rent money * representative money * run for one's money * seed money * ship money * side money * silly money * sin money * sit down money * smart money * spending money * sound money * standard money * till money * time money * time is money * token money * tribute money * trophy money * up-front money * value for money

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    dolphin

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) dolfin, from (etyl) daulphin, dalphin, daufin, from (etyl) "womb".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A carnivorous aquatic mammal inhabiting mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.
  • A fish, the mahi-mahi or dorado, Coryphaena hippurus , with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.
  • The dauphin, eldest son of the kings of France.
  • (historical) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped through the deck and the hull of an enemy's vessel to sink it.
  • (nautical) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
  • (nautical) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
  • A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
  • A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
  • (military, obsolete) One of the handles above the trunnions by which a gun was lifted.
  • (Webster 1913)
    Synonyms
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    Derived terms
    (terms derived from dolphin) * Amazon River dolphin * Arabian common dolphin * Atlantic humpback dolphin * Atlantic spotted dolphin * Atlantic white-sided dolphin * Australian snubfin dolphin * bottlenose dolphin * Chilean dolphin * Commerson's dolphin * common dolphin * delphine * dolphin hugger * dolphinarium * dolphin-friendly * dusky dolphin * flog the dolphin * Fraser's dolphin * Ganges and Indus River dolphin * Heaviside's dolphin * Hector's dolphin * hourglass dolphin * humpback dolphin dolphin * Indian humpback dolphin * Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin * Irrawaddy dolphin * La Plata dolphin * long-beaked common dolphin * northern right whale dolphin * Pacific humpback dolphin * Pacific white-sided dolphin * Peale's dolphin * Risso's dolphin * rought-toothed dolphin * short-beaked common dolphin * southern right whale dolphin * spinner dolphin * striped dolphin * white-beaked dolphin * wholphin * Yangtze river dolphin

    See also

    * killer whale * pod * porpoise * sea lion * seal * whale

    Etymology 2

    From (duc d'Albe in French), who was the first to let build this type of structures in the Spanish Netherlands in the 16th century.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A man-made semi submerged maritime structure, usually installed to provide a fixed structure for temporary mooring, to prevent ships from drifting to shallow water or to serve as base for navigational aids.