Pedal vs Tarsus - What's the difference?
pedal | tarsus |
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.
(anatomy) The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus.
(anatomy) Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot.
(anatomy) A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control.
(zoology) In insects and other arthropods, any of a series of articulations in the true foot; the last joint forming the foot in spiders.
As nouns the difference between pedal and tarsus
is that pedal is pedal while tarsus is (anatomy) the part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus.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.