Puppy vs Colony - What's the difference?
puppy | colony |
A young dog, usually cute and playful.
A young rat.
A young seal.
(slang, usually, in the plural) A woman’s breast.
(informal) A (generic) thing; particularly something that is a nuisance; a sucker.
(derogatory) A conceited and impertinent person.
* Addison
To bring forth whelps; to pup.
A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin
Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
* Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain .
A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area
* The in Iowa were settled by people from Germany
A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
* ant colony
* The Portuguese Man O' War (Physalia physalis), also known as the bluebubble, bluebottle or the man-of-war, is commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is actually a siphonophore — a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids. Wikipedia article on (w, Portuguese Man o' War)
A collective noun for rabbits.
As nouns the difference between puppy and colony
is that puppy is a young dog, usually cute and playful while colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin.As a verb puppy
is to bring forth whelps; to pup.puppy
English
Noun
(puppies)- I have another two dozen of these puppies to finish before I can go home.
- I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.