Salamander vs Gnome - What's the difference?
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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.
* 19th century (quoted 1977) , recipe in Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery , Rigby, ISBN 978-0-7270-0187-0, page 41:
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A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.
* 1996 , , Giorgio A. Pinton, Arthur W. Shippee (translators), The Art of Rhetoric'', [1711-1741, Giambattista Vico, ''Institutiones Oratoriae ],
* 2003 , Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion ,
(magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
* 1811 , The Medical and Physical Journal , Volume 25,
* 2006 , Greg Lynch, RuneQuest Monsters ,
* 2007 , Christopher Penczak, Ascension Magick: Ritual, Myth and Healing for the New Aeon ,
(mythology, fantasy literature) One of a legendary race of human-like beings, usually imagined as short bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.
* 2011 , Ross Lawhead, The Realms Thereunder ,
A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
The (northern pygmy owl), , a small owl of the western United States.
A small statue placed in a garden to ward off pests and protect a home from sorcery.
* 2011 , Bronwen Forbes, The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide ,
(astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
As nouns the difference between salamander and gnome
is that salamander is a long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, resembling a lizard or a newt while gnome is a brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.As a verb salamander
is to use a salamander (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.As a proper noun GNOME is
an open source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.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.
gnome
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)page 125,
- The Greeks in their tongue call this second type of maxim noema''. The gnome''' is more appropriate to the philosophers, and the noema to the orators, to the poets, and to the historians. To speak by '''gnomes alone was referred to by the Greeks as "philosophizing" which we Italians would render as "to mouth maxims" (''sputar sentenze ).
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- Thus, the gnome''''' concerning the precarious nature of, and the potential suffering in, human life sent by the gods uttered by Electra is deconstructed by her choice of paradigm. By using Tantalos as an illustration, the play overturns the apparent meaning of the '''''gnome .
Synonyms
* adage, apothegm, maxim, paroemia, proverb, sententiaEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 138,
- He adopts the Rosycrusian fancy of Gnomes , spirits which inhabit the earth, and who by their power form the ores of metals, and all the wonders met with in the inmost recesses of the globe.
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- Gnomes are perhaps the most useful of the elementals.
- A gnome' can carry a person with it as it swims through the soil, provided it is strong enough to lift the person. The ' gnome cannot, however, provide air for that person.
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- Elementals are the consciousness guiding the four classical elements of earth, fire, air, and water. These elementals are depicted as gnomes , salamanders, diminutive faeries known as sylphs, and merfolk, known as undines, respectively.
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- There were not one but four gnomes standing at his feet. “I nearly trod on you,” Daniel said. “What are you doing here?”
- The gnomes just stood, looking up at him.
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- My mother-in-law, who swears she is a good Lutheran but is also the most powerful Witch I have ever met, also has at least a dozen small lawn gnomes' peeking out from beside her shrubs, next to the lilac bushes, and hanging out with the roses. My husband has already started our collection; as of this writing, four '''gnomes''' and one moss-covered rabbit hang out in the shrubbery by the front door, two ' gnomes live in the dining room, and one guards the perpetual pile of to-do paperwork that lives next to the computer.
