As a noun pizza
is pizza.
As a proper noun phosphorus is
a name sometimes used for hesperus, the personification in greek mythology of the planet venus.
pizza
English
Noun
(uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit
- a slice of pizza
- a pizza pie
- Want to go out for pizza tonight?
(countable) A single instance of this dish
- He ate a whole pizza !
- Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?
Usage notes
* In phrases like (term) and (term), (term) refers to the toppings.
Synonyms
* pizza pie
* pie
Derived terms
* pizza bone
* pizza cutter
* pizza face
* pizza man
* pizza parlor
* pizza puff
* pizza wheel
* pizzeria
* sheet pizza
phosphorus
Noun
(chemistry) a chemical element (symbol P) with an atomic number of 15, that exists in several allotropic forms.
(obsolete) any substance exhibiting phosphorescence; a phosphor
Usage notes
* Do not confuse phosphorus' with ' phosphorous , which is an adjective.
Derived terms
* Baldwin's phosphorus
* Bolognian phosphorus
* Bononian phosphorus
* Canton's phosphorus
* diphosphorus
* foss, phos, phoss
* fossy, phossy
* Hittorf's phosphorus
* Homberg's phosphorus
* mercurial phosphorus
* Montalbano's phosphorus
* phosph-, phospho-
* phosphane
* phosphonium
* phosphorate
* phosphorent
* phosphoreous
* phosphoresce
* phosphoriferous
* phosphorite
* phosphoro-
* phosphorolysis
*
* phosphorus bottle
* phosphorus cachexia
* phosphorus chloride
* phosphorus liver
* phosphorus match
* phosphorus necrosis
* phosphorus oxybromide
* phosphorus oxychloride
* phosphorus paste
* phosphorus pentabromide
* phosphorus pentachloride
* phosphorus pentafluoride
* phosphorus pentasulfide, phosphorus pentasulphide
* phosphorus pentoxide
* phosphorus poisoning
* phosphorus sesquisulfide, phosphorus sesquisulphide
* phosphorus tribromide
* phosphorus trichloride
* phosphorus trifluoride
* phosphorus trihydride
* phosphorus triiodide
* phosphoryl
* phossy jaw
* black phosphorus
* red phosphorus
* violet phosphorus
* white phosphorus
* yellow phosphorus
Related terms
* phosphate
* phosphatization
* phosphatized
* phosphatizing
* phosphide
* phosphine
* phosphite
* phosphor
* phosphoreal, phosphorial
* phosphoresce
* phosphorescence
* phosphorescent
* phosphoretic
* phosphorgummite
* phosphoric
* phosphorise, phosphorize
* phosphorism
* phosphorist
* phosphorous
* phosphor-roesslerite,
* phosphoruria, phosphuria
* Phosphorus
* phosphure
* phosphuret
* phosphureted
See also
* ADP
* AMP
* ATP
* bone-ash
* smoking stool syndrome
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