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moses | bacteria |

As nouns the difference between moses and bacteria

is that moses is a large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship while bacteria is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.

As a proper noun Moses

is the pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.

moses

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.
  • * :
    • And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses' up to the top of the mount; and ' Moses went up.
  • * 1952 (w, Singin' in the Rain): Moses supposes (a song):
    • Moses' supposes his toeses are roses, / But '''Moses''' supposes erroneously, / '''Moses''' he knowses his toeses aren't roses, / As ' Moses supposes his toeses to be!
  • .
  • A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language

    • Derived terms

    * Moses basket

    Related terms

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    Noun

  • A large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    bacteria

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (head)
  • English plurals
  • (US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, A.C. Panchdhari, Water Supply and Sanitary Installations citation
    • , passage=Anaerobic bacteria' function in the absence of oxygen, where as aerobic '''bacteria''' require sunlight and also oxygen. Both these ' bacterias are capable of breaking down the organic matter
  • (US, proscribed)
  • (pejorative, slang) A derisive term for a lowlife or a slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
    • Usage notes
    * This is the plural form of the word. While it is often used as if it were singular (as a collective noun), this is considered nonstandard by some in the US and more elsewhere. See the usage examples under (bacterium).
    Derived terms
    * Bacteria * Eubacteria * Archaebacteria / Archebacteria * eubacteria * archaebacteria / archebacteria
    See also
    * culture (collective noun)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (bacteriae)
  • (dated, medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus

    • Anagrams

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