Node vs Swell - What's the difference?
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A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
(astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are .
(botany) A stem node.
(computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
(medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
(technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
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To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
* Shakespeare
To cause to become bigger.
* Atterbury
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To grow gradually in force or loudness.
To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
To be raised to arrogance.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
* Dryden
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
To protuberate; to bulge out.
The act of swelling.
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
* Landor:
A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
* 1883 , , Treasure Island , ch. 24:
(music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
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, title= (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
(music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
* 1909 , , The Last of the Chiefs , ch. 2:
(informal) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
* , "The Kickleburys on the Rhine" in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh :
* 1887 , , The Cash Boy , ch. 9:
(informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
* 1864 , , The Small House at Allington , ch. 2:
* 1906 , , The Trespasser , ch. 8:
Excellent.
* 2012 , (Ariel Levy), "The Space In Between", The New Yorker , 10 Sep 2012:
Node is a related term of swell.
As an abbreviation node
is .As a verb swell is
to become bigger, especially due to being engorged.As a noun swell is
the act of swelling.As an adjective swell is
excellent.node
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(wikipedia node)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* acnode * crunode * hardware node * leaf-node * tacnodeSynonyms
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Verb
- Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
- Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.
- It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge.
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Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.
- The organ music swelled .
- to be swelled with pride or haughtiness
- Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock.
- You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.
- Your equal mind yet swells not into state.
- swelling''' words; a '''swelling style
- A cask swells in the middle.
Noun
(en noun)- the swell and subsidence of his periods
- There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. "Antelope," said the hunters.
- It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?
- He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell .
- "I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it." . . .
- "I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell'." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a ' swell .
- You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell —you and the gods!
Synonyms
* (person dressed in a fancy or elegant manner) dandy, dude, toff * (person of high social standing) toffDerived terms
* ground swell, groundswell * upswell * wind swellAdjective
(en-adj)- Orgasms are swell , but they are not the remedy to every injustice.