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Pan vs Poly - What's the difference?

pan | poly |

As nouns the difference between pan and poly

is that pan is a wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking or pan can be or pan can be a part; a portion while poly is polytechnic or poly can be a whitish woolly plant () of the order labiatae, found throughout the mediterranean.

As verbs the difference between pan and poly

is that pan is to wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc when searching for gold) or pan can be to turn horizontally (of a camera etc) or pan can be to join or fit together; to unite while poly is (transitive|video games|roguelikes) to polymorph; to transform by magic.

As adjectives the difference between pan and poly

is that pan is (slang) pansexual while poly is (chiefly|informal) polyamorous.

pan

Translingual

(wikipedia Pan)

Proper noun

    • Hypernyms

    * (genus) (Hominidae Hypernyms); Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Panina - subtribe

    Hyponyms

    * (genus) Pan paniscus'', ''Pan troglodytes - species

    External links

    * (Chimpanzee) * ("Pan" species on Wikimedia) * (comcatlite) ----

    poly

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortening of various words.

    Noun

    (polys)
  • polytechnic.
  • polyethylene (polythene)
  • (chiefly, computer graphics) polygon
  • (uncountable) polyester
    • a cotton-poly blend
  • (chiefly, informal) polyamory
  • (chiefly, informal) A polyamorous person.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (chiefly, informal) polyamorous

    • Verb

  • (transitive, video games, roguelikes) To polymorph; to transform by magic.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) polium, the name of a plant, perhaps Teucrium polium .

    Alternative forms

    * poley

    Noun

  • A whitish woolly plant () of the order Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean.

    • Usage notes

    * The name, with various prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus.

    Derived terms

    * poly-mountain (Webster 1913)

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