Rabbit vs Tiger - What's the difference?
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A mammal of the family Leporidae , with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
(lb) A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
(lb) A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.
To hunt rabbits.
(US) To flee.
(British) To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
Panthera tigris , a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
# A male tiger.
A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The Beginnings
A leopard.
* 1907 , Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld , Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:
(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
* 2010 , Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood
(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
* Shakespeare
(US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between rabbit and tiger
is that rabbit is a mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail while tiger is Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.As a verb rabbit
is to hunt rabbits.As a proper noun Tiger is
a town in Georgia.rabbit
English
(wikipedia rabbit) (Leporidae)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rabet, from (etyl) dialect (compare (etyl) dialect rabbotte, . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
(animal) * bunny (hypocoristic'', ''colloquial'', ''pet name ) * bunny rabbit (hypocoristic'', ''colloquial'', ''pet name ) * coney, cony (dialect )Derived terms
* breed like rabbits * bunny rabbit * fuck like rabbits * jackrabbit * kill the rabbit * pull a rabbit out of the hat * rabbit's foot * rabbity * the rabbit died * Welsh rabbitVerb
- ''The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit .
Synonyms
* (to flee): run off, scamper, boltSee also
* buck * cottontail * doe * hare * kitten * warren * (wikipedia)Etymology 2
From Cockney rhyming slang rabbit and pork , to talk.Verb
- Stop your infernal rabbiting ! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!
- Commonly used in the form "to rabbit on"
Synonyms
* (to talk incessantly and childishly): babble, blather, prattle, ,See also
* chew the fat * chew the cud (British) * shoot the breeze (US)tiger
English
(wikipedia tiger)Alternative forms
* tigre (obsolete) * tyger (dated)Noun
(en noun)- (Dickens)
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger , thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
- Don't Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
- As for heinous tiger , Tamora.
- three cheers and a tiger
