Sandwich vs Bacteria - What's the difference?
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A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.
(by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
(figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=April 11
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City
, work=BBC Sport
(US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.
English plurals
(US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium
* {{quote-book, 2002, A.C. Panchdhari, Water Supply and Sanitary Installations
, passage=Anaerobic bacteria' function in the absence of oxygen, where as aerobic '''bacteria''' require sunlight and also oxygen. Both these ' bacterias are capable of breaking down the organic matter
(US, proscribed)
(pejorative, slang) A derisive term for a lowlife or a slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
(dated, medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus
In us terms the difference between sandwich and bacteria
is that sandwich is of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner while bacteria is a type, species, or strain of bacterium.As a verb sandwich
is to place one item between two other, usually flat, items.As an adjective sandwich
is of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.As a proper noun Sandwich
is a town in Kent, south-east England, one of the historic Cinque Ports.sandwich
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(wikipedia sandwich) (Structured composite sandwich)Noun
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* hamburger, burger * -burger * patty meltDerived terms
{{der3, club sandwich , Dagwood sandwich , Dutch sandwich , knuckle sandwich , open sandwich , sandwich spread , sandwich board , sandwichable , sandwichy , soup sandwich}}Descendants
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Adjective
(-)Usage notes
* The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbeque, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich. English eponyms English refractory feminine rhymes ----bacteria
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