Pedal vs Medal - What's the difference?
pedal | medal |
A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano
(medicine) a foot or footlike part.
To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
To operate a bicycle.
A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
*, II.i.3:
A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.
(sports, very, colloquial) To win a medal.
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As nouns the difference between pedal and medal
is that pedal is pedal while medal is a stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.As a verb medal is
(sports|very|colloquial) to win a medal.pedal
English
Noun
(en noun)- There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.
- A piano usually has two or three pedals .
- the pedal of a loom
Derived terms
* brake pedal * pedal pushers * soft pedal * sostenuto pedal * sustaining pedalVerb
- to pedal one's loom
- He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.
Coordinate terms
* , relating to the handAnagrams
* * * English heteronyms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Derived terms
* (l)References
* ----medal
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals , benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?
Derived terms
* gold medal: a medal designed for first-place winners * silver medal: a medal designed for second-place winners * bronze medal: a medal designed for third-place winners * tea and medalsVerb
- "He medalled twice at the Olympics"
