Panda vs Encyclopedia - What's the difference?
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The giant panda – a black and white bear-like animal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca from the mountains of China.
(UK, colloquial) A police car.
A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with in-depth articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.
(dated) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between panda and encyclopedia
is that panda is panda (ailuropoda melanoleuca ) while encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with in-depth articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.panda
English
(wikipedia panda)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (bear-like animal) giant panda, mottled bear, panda bear * (raccoon-like animal) lesser panda, red pandaDerived terms
* panda car * panda crossing * panda hugger * pandalike * pandamonium * reverse pandaencyclopedia
English
(wikipedia encyclopedia)Alternative forms
* (chiefly British) encyclopaedia * (obsolete)Noun
- I only use the library for the encyclopedia , as we’ve got most other books here.
- His life's work was a four-volume encyclopedia of aviation topics.