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Sword vs Dword - What's the difference?

sword | dword |

As nouns the difference between sword and dword

is that sword is a long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice while dword is a numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically 32 bits.

sword

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.
  • * 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
    • Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
  • * 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 49.
    • Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
  • Someone paid to handle a sword.
  • (tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
  • (tarot) A card of this suit.
  • (weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

    • Derived terms

    * bastardsword * broadsword * double-edged sword * fall on one’s sword * longsword * pork sword * put to the sword * samurai sword * short sword * sword bayonet * swordbill * sword cane * swordcraft * sword dance * sword fern * swordfish * sword grass * sword knot * sword lily * sword of Damocles * swordbearer, sword-bearer * swordbearing, sword-bearing * swordplay * swordsman * swordsmanship * swordstick * sword-swallower

    Coordinate terms

    * (weaponry) bayonet, claymore, cutlass, epee, , falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan

    Anagrams

    * words 1000 English basic words

    dword

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically 32 bits.
  • * 1991 , William B Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family
    • Using a double loop, each dword of the first factor is multiplied by each dword of the second factor...
  • * 1999 , Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI system architecture
    • A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing.
  • * 2003 , Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language
    • The subtraction of each dword is independent of the other; there is no borrow from dword to dword.