Simple vs Noodle - What's the difference?
simple | noodle |
Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
*2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,
*:There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
Without ornamentation; plain.
Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
* (ca.1576-1634)
*:Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.
*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?
*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
*:To be simple is to be great.
Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
Trivial; insignificant.
*1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:
*:‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’
Feeble-minded; foolish.
Structurally uncomplicated.
#(lb) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
#(lb) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
#(lb) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
#(lb) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
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#(lb) Homogenous.
(lb) Mere; not other than; being only.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:A medicinewhose simple touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.
(medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
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*:I know there are some simples , which in operation are moistening and some drying.
*Sir W. Temple
*:What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.
(obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
(logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
(obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
*Shakespeare
*:compounded of many simples
(weaving) A drawloom.
(weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
(Roman Catholic) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.
(usually in plural) A string or strip of pasta.
(colloquial, dated) A person with poor judgement; a fool.
* Sydney Smith
* Charles Dickens, Hard Times
(colloquial) The brain, the head.
(colloquial) A pool noodle.
(fishing) To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body
To think or ponder.
To fiddle, play with, or mess around.
To improvise music.
(Australia) To fossick, especially for opals.
* 1989 , Association for Industrial Archaeology, Industrial archaeology review , Volume 12,
* 1994 , RonMoon, Outback Australia: a Lonely Planet Australia guide ,
* 2006 , Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith, Fay Knight (editors), Making Waves: 10 Years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival ,
As nouns the difference between simple and noodle
is that simple is (medicine) a preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant while noodle is (usually in plural) a string or strip of pasta.As verbs the difference between simple and noodle
is that simple is (transitive|intransitive|archaic) to gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs while noodle is (fishing) to fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body.As an adjective simple
is uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.simple
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (consisting of a single part or aspect) onefold * (having few parts or features) plain * See alsoAntonyms
* (having few parts or features) complex, compound, complicated * (uncomplicated) subtleDerived terms
* fee simple * future simple * oversimple * past simple * plain and simple * present simple * pure and simple * simple beam * simple connectivity * simple contract * simple dislocation * simple equation * simple extension * simple eye * simple fraction * simple fracture * simple fruit * simple function * simple future * simple group * simple harmonic motion * simple-hearted * simple interest * simple leaf * simple linear regression * simple machine * simple mastectomy * simple microscope * simple-minded * simple past * simple pendulum * simple pistil * simple pole * simple present * simple protein * simple regression * simple sentence * Simple Simon * simple sugar * simple syrup * simple time * simple trust * simplehead * simpleness * simpless * simplex * simply * single * simplicity * simpletonNoun
(en noun)Verb
(simpl)Derived terms
* simpler * simplist * simplifyStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----noodle
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia noodle)- She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.
- the chuckling grin of noodles
- If that portrait could speak, sir — but it has the advantage over the original of not possessing the power of committing itself and disgusting others, — it would testify, that a long period has elapsed since I first habitually addressed it as the picture of a noodle .
Quotations
(English Citations of "noodle")Derived terms
* egg noodle * noodle bar * noodlehead * pool noodleSee also
* pasta *Verb
(Noodling)- Fred had several lacerations on his hands from noodling for flathead in the river.
- He noodled over the problem for a day or two before making a decision.
- "Noodle that thought around for a while" said Dr. Johnson to his Biblical Interpretations class
- If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it.
- He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful.
- On the Olympic Field the tour-group is permitted to ‘noodle ’ (hunt for opals) on the waste or mullock heaps ...
- In Coober Pedy, noodling' for opals is generally discouraged, although a few tourist spots, such as the Old Timers Mine, have ' noodle pits open to the public.
- We learn how Lennon used to noodle (fossick) for opal as a kid, how camels were for a long time the only form of transportation, and where the name 'Coober Pedy' came from.