Shark vs Tiger - What's the difference?
shark | tiger |
A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
* 1569', ''The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight, the xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God, M.D.lxix.'', a
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 13, author=AP, work=The Guardian
, title= Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
* , chapter=7
, title= (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.
(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
(informal) A very good poker or pool player.
(sports, and, games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
(obsolete) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
* Bishop Earle
(obsolete) To live by shifts and stratagems.
(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
* Shakespeare, Hamlet I.i.
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 shark and tiger
is that shark is a scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head while tiger is Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.As a verb shark
is to steal or obtain through fraud.As a proper noun Tiger is
a town in Georgia.shark
English
(wikipedia shark) (Selachimorpha)Etymology 1
First attested in the 1560s, the word meaning 'scaleless fish' is of uncertain origin: it was apparently brought to England, with a specimen, by . The word may derive from the (etyl) xoc, or it may be an application of the "scoundrel" sense (which derives from the German ) to the fish; no explanation is agreed upon.[http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002843.php]Alternative forms
* sharke (obsolete )Noun
(en noun)broadside printed in London, the earliest known use of the term; reprinted in ''A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides: printed in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597'' in ' 1867 :
- The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, [...]. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke .
Man 'surfs' great white shark, passage=He said he had spoken to a woman who was kayaking off Catalina Island, California, in 2008 when a shark' slammed her kayak from underneath and sent her flying into the air. She then landed on the back of the '''shark''', Collier said. "At that point the ' shark started to swim out to sea, so she jumped off its back," Collier said.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks , and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
Synonyms
* (scaleless cartilaginous fish) (l) (obsolete)Derived terms
(shark and related fish species) * angel shark, angelshark * basking shark * bramble shark * bull shark * bullhead shark * bonnethead shark * carpetshark * catshark, cat shark * cookiecutter shark * cow shark * frilled shark * goblin shark * great white shark * Greenland shark * ground shark * gummyshark, gummy shark * hammerhead shark * hound shark, houndshark * lantern shark, lanternshark * lemon shark * leopard shark * mackerel shark * mako shark * nurse shark * requiem shark * sand shark * saw shark, sawshark * sleepershark * swellshark * thresher shark * tiger shark * weasel shark * whale shark * white sharkSee also
* dogfish * hammerhead * porbeagle * smooth-hound * thresher * white pointerEtymology 2
From the (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (player who feigns ineptitude to win money) hustlerUsage notes
* The use of the term by people unfamiliar with pool is rarely well perceived by experienced players.Derived terms
(shark) * card shark * loan shark * pool shark * shark bait * sharklike * sharkskinVerb
(en verb)- Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Derived terms
* shirkEtymology 3
Perhaps from the noun, or perhaps related to shear.Verb
(en verb)- Fortinbras Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes.
Anagrams
* *References
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