Oyster vs Physics - What's the difference?
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Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
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The delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
(colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
The branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
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Of or pertaining to the physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those studied in physics.
(physic)
As nouns the difference between oyster and physics
is that oyster is any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers while physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy or physics can be .As verbs the difference between oyster and physics
is that oyster is to fish for oysters while physics is (physic).As an adjective oyster
is of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.oyster
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Alternative forms
* oystre (obsolete) * erster (New York City and New Orleans)Noun
(en noun)page 344,
- He was a bold man that first ate an oyster .
Derived terms
* Belon oyster * eastern oyster * Olympic oyster * oyster bed * oyster crab * oyster cracker * oyster farm * oyster mushroom * oyster pink * oyster plant * oyster sauce * oyster shell scale * oyster white * oystercatcher * oysterman * oysters rockefeller * Pacific oyster * pearl oyster * pilgrim oyster * prairie oyster * seed oyster * Sydney rock oyster * the world is one’s oyster * thorny oyster * vegetable oysterSee also
* astragalus * bluepoint * carpetbag steak * clam * lungwort * mussel * Ostreidae * salsify * spat *Anagrams
*physics
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(wikipedia physics)Alternative forms
* physicks (obsolete)Noun
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- Newtonian physics''' was extended by Einstein to explain the effects of travelling near the speed of light; quantum '''physics extends it to account for the behaviour of atoms.
- The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.