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Penguin vs Emu - What's the difference?

penguin | emu |

As nouns the difference between penguin and emu

is that penguin is any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage while emu is a large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.

As an abbreviation emu is

electromagnetic unit.

As an initialism EMU is

with respect to the European Union: Economic and Monetary Union.

penguin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes , found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.
  • * 1638 , (Thomas Herbert), Some Yeares Travels , I:
    • Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins'' (white-head in ''Welch ) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves [...].
  • (slang) A nun (because of the black and white habit).
  • (juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
  • (botany) A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, .

    • Derived terms

    * Adelie penguin * African penguin * Chatham Island penguin * chinstrap penguin * crested penguin * emperor penguin * erect-crested penguin * fairy penguin * Fiordland penguin * Galapagos penguin * gentoo penguin * Humboldt penguin * jackass penguin * king penguin * little penguin * macaroni penguin * Magellanic penguin * penguinery * Ridgen's penguin * rockhopper penguin * royal penguin * Snares penguin * white-flippered penguin * yellow-eyed penguin

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    * English refractory feminine rhymes

    emu

    English

    Alternative forms

    * emeu (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae .

    • External links

    * ("emu" on Wikipedia) * (Dromaius novaehollandiae) * (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • electromagnetic unit.
  • * 1943 , Henry Augustus Perkins, College Physics , p. 530:
    • A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu , 5 cm apart.
  • * 1959 , American Geological Institute, Geoscience Abstracts , p. 38:
    • The average intensity is 80 X 10"5 emu /cm3.
  • * 1974 , William Berkson, Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein , p. 168:
    • The amount of charge named by one emu is that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.
  • * 1976 , John Aloysius O'Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin , p. 109:
    • Booker and Harrison (1966) set an upper limit of 10~7 emu /g.
  • * 2005 , Peter Mohn, Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction , p. 39:
    • Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu'/g, '''emu'''/cm3 or ' emu /mole.
  • (computing, video games, informal) emulator
  • * 2005', "Dane L. Galden at at", ''Could this be used for classic '''emus on GBA?'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.video.classic )
    • Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

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