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Mosaic vs Plaid - What's the difference?

mosaic | plaid |

As nouns the difference between mosaic and plaid

is that mosaic is mosaic while plaid is a type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

As an adjective plaid is

having a pattern or colors which resemble a scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.

As a verb plaid is

(archaic) (play).

mosaic

English

Alternative forms

* mosaick (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
  • (genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
  • (botany) A viral disease of plants.
  • A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (of an individual) Containing cells of varying genetic constitution.

    • Related terms

    * alphamosaic * mosaicism * mosaicist * photomosaic

    See also

    * ("mosaic" on Wikipedia) *

    plaid

    English

    (wikipedia plaid)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) plaid, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a past participle form of (ply). Scottish Gaelic is probably a borrowing from Scots.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  • A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.
  • *2009 , , Glencoe , Amberley 2009, p.47:
  • *:In battle, the plaid was customarily shrugged off before the charge bit home, and the warrior came into contact with only his long, saffron shirt (‘leine chrochach ’) to preserve modesty.
  • The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (play)
  • * 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 134,
    • "...then plaid on the organ, and sung..."
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