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Prominence vs Glome - What's the difference?

prominence | glome |

As nouns the difference between prominence and glome

is that prominence is the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent while glome is one of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.

As a verb glome is

to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.

prominence

Noun

  • The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
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  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • Relative importance.
  • A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
  • (lb) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
  • glome

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (lena) (glomus) a ball. Compare (globe).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
  • (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.
  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (glom)
  • (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
  • (Surrey)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) gloom
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