Pizza vs Popcorn - What's the difference?
pizza | popcorn |
(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
(countable) A single instance of this dish
(chiefly, uncountable) A snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating.
(knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
* 2008 , Claire Compton, ?Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible (page 45)
As nouns the difference between pizza and popcorn
is that pizza is 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 while popcorn is a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating.As a verb popcorn is
to stand up or jump up quickly.pizza
English
Alternative forms
(wikipedia pizza) * pitza (South African English)Noun
- a slice of pizza
- a pizza pie
- Want to go out for pizza tonight?
- 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 * pieDerived terms
* pizza bone * pizza cutter * pizza face * pizza man * pizza parlor * pizza puff * pizza wheel * pizzeria * sheet pizzapopcorn
English
Alternative forms
* pop-corn, popped cornNoun
- From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns , five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.