Stylus vs Puck - What's the difference?
stylus | puck |
A sharp stick used in ancient times for writing in clay tablets or other surfaces; a sharp tool for engraving.
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A phonograph needle.
A small plastic stick used as a pen for writing on the touch sensitive screen of an electronic gadget.
A tool for making small dots on a piece of heavy paper, used to produce Braille writing for the blind by hand.
(ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
* 1886 , Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:
(chiefly, Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
* 2004 , Art Directors Annual , v 83, Rotovision,
(computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
As nouns the difference between stylus and puck
is that stylus is a sharp stick used in ancient times for writing in clay tablets or other surfaces; a sharp tool for engraving while puck is a hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.As a proper noun Puck is
a mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.stylus
English
(wikipedia stylus)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* stylograph * stylophonepuck
English
Etymology 1
Attested since 1886. From or influenced by (etyl) . Compare poke (1861).Noun
(en noun)- In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck ’, is used.
p 142:
- He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck'. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal ' puck .