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Quarl vs Quark - What's the difference?

quarl | quark |

As nouns the difference between quarl and quark

is that quarl is (archaic) a medusa or jellyfish while quark is quark (cheese) or quark can be a quark (particle).

quarl

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A medusa or jellyfish.
    • The jellied quarl that flings / At once a thousand streaming stings. — J. R. Drake.
    The quarl wraps around him his long arms — Fitz-Greene Halleck.

    See also

    * quarrel

    quark

    English

    (wikipedia quark)

    Etymology 1

    First used in 1963 by one of the theorists who postulated the existence of quarks, Wikipedia article.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (particle) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
  • * 1993 , Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was "quark". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with "cork".) — (James Gleick), Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity,
  • (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
    • Derived terms
    * antiquark
    Related terms
    * quarkonic
    See also
    * beauty quark * bottom quark * charm quark * down quark * strange quark * top quark * truth quark * up quark

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) Quark, from late (etyl) twarc, from a (etyl) language, compare (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * qvark

    Noun

    (-)
  • A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
    • See also
    * curd

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeia, from the sound of the squawk.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
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