Salamander vs Frog - What's the difference?
salamander | frog |
A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, resembling a lizard or a newt.
* 1672 , (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica)'', 1852, Simon Wilkin (editor), ''The Works of Sir Thomas Browne , Volume 1,
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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 small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops
The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached
(Cockney rhyming slang) Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad
The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick
An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood
The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof)
An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.
The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword.
To hunt or trap frogs.
To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt
An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of a button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop
To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs
To unravel (a knitted garment).
As nouns the difference between salamander and frog
is that salamander is salamander while frog is a small tailless amphibian of the order anura that typically hops or frog can be (offensive) a french person or frog can be a leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.As a verb frog is
to hunt or trap frogs or frog can be to ornament or fasten a coat, etc with frogs or frog can be to unravel (a knitted garment).salamander
English
(wikipedia salamander)Noun
(en noun)page 292,
- 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.
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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.