What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Porcupine vs Milk - What's the difference?

porcupine | milk |

As nouns the difference between porcupine and milk

is that porcupine is any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families hystricidae (old world porcupines) or erethizontidae (new world porcupines), noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised while milk is (uncountable) a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young from certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.

As a verb milk is

to express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

porcupine

English

(wikipedia porcupine)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.
  • * 1981 , Adolph Murie, The Grizzlies of Mount McKinley , page 218,
    • I have no evidence of grizzlies killing porcupines' or vice versa. However, occasionally there is contact and sometimes a grizzly is injured or a ' porcupine killed, but the latter is rare.
  • * 2010 , Richard Potts, Early Hominid Activities at Olduvai , page 81,
    • In particular, porcupines , hyenas, and leopards are known in Africa to transport bones to particular places.
  • * 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Rats, Bats, and Xenarthrans , page 113,
    • Old World porcupines' (Hystricidae) have quills embedded in clusters, whereas in New World '''porcupines''' (Erethizontidae) single quills are interspersed with bristles, underfur, and hair. No ' porcupine can throw its quills, but they detach easily and will remain embedded in an attacker.

    Synonyms

    * (any species of Hystricidae or Erethizontidae)

    Derived terms

    * African brush-tailed porcupine () * Andean porcupine () * Bahia porcupine () * bicolored-spined porcupine () * black dwarf porcupine () * black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine () * Brazilian porcupine () * bristle-spined porcupine () ( = bristle-spined rat) * brown hairy dwarf porcupine () * Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum ) * Canadian porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum ) * common porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum ) * crested porcupine () * frosted hairy dwarf porcupine () * Koopman's porcupine () * Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine () * Mexican tree porcupine () * New World porcupine (Erethizontidae) * North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum ) * Old World porcupine (Hystricidae) * orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine () * Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine () * Porcs * Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) * Porcupine Bank * porcupine caribou () ( = Grant's caribou) * Porcupine Creek * porcupine family * Porcupine Flat Campground * porcupinefish, porcupine fish * porcupine flower () * Porcupine Freedom Festival (PorcFest) * Porcupine Gold Rush * Porcupine Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia ( = Porcupine Gorge) * Porcupine Hills * Porcupine Lake * Porcupine Mall * Porcupine Meadows Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, ( = Porcupine Meadows Park) * Porcupine Mountains, Michigan ( = Porkies) * Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park * porcupine, Ontario * Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan * Porcupine River * porcupine seabight * porcupine, South Dakota * porcupine tree * porcupine, Wisconsin * prehensile-tailed porcupine () * Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine () * Rothschild's porcupine () * Santa Marta porcupine () * South porcupine, (Ontario) (SoPo) * streaked dwarf porcupine () * stump-tailed porcupine () * thin-spined porcupine () ( = bristle-spined rat) * urson * USS Porcupine

    Related terms

    * Chaetomyinae * Chaetomys * Coendou * echimyid * Echimyidae * Echinoprocta * Erethizon * erethizontid * Erethizontinae * erethizontine * hystricid * hystricine * Hystricognathi * porcine * porcus * porky * porpentine (Shakespearean word) * Sphiggurus

    See also

    * echidna * hedgehog * spiny anteater * urchin

    milk

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . (Cognates) Cognate with (etyl) .

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
  • # The lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, and including the addition of limited amounts of vitamin A, vitamin D, and other carriers or flavoring ingredients identified as safe and suitable.
  • (countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.
    • Table three ordered three milks'''.'' (Formally: ''The guests at table three ordered three glasses of '''milk . )
  • (uncountable) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as soy beans, coconuts, almonds, rice, oats. Also called non-dairy milk .
  • * c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:
    • Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
  • * 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
    • dorr?&
  • 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande ' mylk .
  • The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
  • (uncountable, slang) semen

    • Quotations

    * 2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition , National Public Radio *: there's going to be that much less milk' available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid ' milk or whether it's cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.

    Derived terms

    * almond milk * breast milk * chocolate milk * coconut milk * condensed milk * cowmilk, cow milk * evaporated milk * flavored milk, flavoured milk * homogenized milk * milkaholic * milk bar * milk bottle * milk chocolate * milk fever * milk float * milkmaid * milkman * milk of magnesia * milk pan * milk powder * milk product * milkshake * milk tooth * milky * Milky Way * nut milk * oat milk * rice milk * semi-skimmed milk * skimmed milk, skim milk * soy milk * whole milk

    Related terms

    * milch

    References

    * FDA standard of identity for "milk".

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
    • The farmer milked his cows.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me.
  • To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
    • to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
  • To express any liquid (from any creature).
  • (figurative) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, etc.); to take advantage of (a situation).
    • When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
  • * London Spectator
    • They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "milk") * dairy * dairy product 1000 English basic words ----