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Sushi vs Hamburger - What's the difference?

sushi | hamburger |

As nouns the difference between sushi and hamburger

is that sushi is a Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat while hamburger is a hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.

sushi

English

(wikipedia sushi)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat.
  • For the vegetarians, she served cucumber sushi .
  • (proscribed) Raw fish, especially as a Japanese dish.
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  • Usage notes

    Though the primary ingredient of Japanese sushi is flavored rice, non-Japanese people often often assume that the defining component is raw fish, and occasionally use "sushi" to mean "raw fish". Raw slices of fish (or other meats) served without rice are properly called sashimi''.Celeste Heiter, ''The Sushi Book (2007), page 11

    See also

    * California roll * nigiri * sashimi * sushi roll * kimbap

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    hamburger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
  • The patty used in such a sandwich.
  • (uncountable) Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
  • (colloquial, somewhat, vulgar) An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.
  • The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger .
    I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.

    Synonyms

    * (sandwich) beefburger * (patty) hamburger patty

    Hypernyms

    * (sandwich) burger

    Hyponyms

    (sense) * slider * quarter-pounder * cheeseburger

    Coordinate terms

    (sense) * chicken burger * fish burger * lamb burger * pork burger * vegeburger * soyburger

    Derived terms

    * burger * cheeseburger * hamburgerology * vegeburger * soyburger * gardenburger