Salamander vs Dragon - What's the difference?
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A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, resembling a lizard or a newt.
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(mythology) A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire, hence the elemental being of fire.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XI
* 1849 , John Brand, Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions , Volume 3, page 372
(cooking) A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
* 1977 , Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery (discussing 19th century cookery), Rigby, 1977, ISBN 0-7270-0187-6, page 41
(cooking) A small broiler, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.
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The (pouched gopher), , of the southern United States.
(UK, obsolete) A large poker.
(metallurgy) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
To use a (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.
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A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
# In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
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# In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
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An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
# (obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
# Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco'', ''Physignathus or .
# A Komodo dragon.
(astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
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(pejorative) An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
(with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
(military, historical) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
A variety of carrier pigeon.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between salamander and dragon
is that salamander is a long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, resembling a lizard or a newt while dragon is a legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.As a verb salamander
is to use a salamander (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.As a proper noun Dragon is
the Devil.salamander
English
(wikipedia salamander)Noun
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- and most plainly Pierius, whose words in his hieroglyphicks are these: "Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that it is so far from quenching hot coals, that it dyeth immediately therein."
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- “Not a chance, Ranger,” Bob Mason was speaking. “This little cuss is a salamander . He's been travelling through fire all day and there isn't a blister on him. …”
- "There is a vulgar error," says the author of the Brief Natural History, p. 91, "that a salamander' lives in the fire. Yet both Galen and Dioscorides refute this opinion; and Mathiolus, in his Commentaries upon Dioscorides, a very famous physician, affirms of them, that by casting of many a ' salamander into the fire for tryal he found it false. The same experiment is likewise avouched by Joubertus."
- The salamander , a fairly long metal utensil with a flat rounded head, was left in the fire until red hot and then used to brown the top of a dish without further cooking.
- The chef first put the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.
- (Halliwell)
Hyponyms
* (amphibian) siredonDerived terms
* (cave salamander) * fire salamander * giant salamander * mole salamander * tiger salamanderVerb
(en verb)- When cold, sprinkle the custard thickly with sugar and salamander it.
dragon
English
(Dragon)Noun
(en noun)- But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon', and rescue a princess, the ' dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.
- These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons'; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each ' dragon , I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.
- My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior .
- She’s a bit of a dragon .
- Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon .
- (Fairholt)