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Symbolic vs Clone - What's the difference?

symbolic | clone |

As an adjective symbolic

is pertaining to a symbol.

As a verb clone is

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symbolic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a symbol.
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    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • Referring to something with an implicit meaning.

    • Derived terms

    * symbolical * symbolically * symbolics

    Related terms

    * symbol * symbolisation Br. * symbolise Br. * symbolistic * symbolization * symbolize * symbolism * symbolist * symbology * symbolology

    clone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
  • A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
  • A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.[http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2754]

    • Derived terms

    * holoclone * meroclone * paraclone * polyclone

    Verb

    (clon)
  • To create a clone.

    • References

    * C.L. Pollard. "'Clon' versus 'clone'". Science (new series) 22:469, 1905. * C.L. Pollard. "On the spelling of 'clon'". Science (new series) 22:87-88, 1905. * W.T. Stearn. "The use of the term 'clone'". Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 74:41-47, 1949. ----