Src vs Orc - What's the difference?
src | orc |
(nautical) A Short Range Certificate (certificate that entitles the holder to operate a maritime VHF radio).
(fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive.
* 1656 , Samuel Holland, Don Zara del Fogo , I.1:
* 1834 , "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:
* 1954 , (JRR Tolkien), The Fellowship of the Ring :
As initialisms the difference between src and orc
is that src is a Short Range Certificate (certificate that entitles the holder to operate a maritime VHF radio) while ORC is orange River Colony, a name given to the Orange Free State when annexed by Britain in 1900.As an abbreviation src
is source.As a noun orc is
any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.src
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(Initialism) (en-initialism)Anagrams
* * * * * ----orc
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(wikipedia orc)Etymology 1
From (etyl) orque, (etyl) orca, and their source, (etyl) .Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke , begotten by an Incubus.
- The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
- There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.