Tentacle vs An - What's the difference?
tentacle | an |
An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
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(UK, non-standard) used in many British regional accents before some words beginning with a pronounced h
(archaic) If, so long as.
(archaic) as if; as though.
In each; to or for each; per.
As nouns the difference between tentacle and an
is that tentacle is an elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid while an is favor, grace.tentacle
English
(wikipedia tentacle)Noun
(en noun)20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle , that slid wriggling down the ladder.
- The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles , immediately under the mouth.
- Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles .
Derived terms
* tentacularan
English
(wikipedia an)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Article
(head)Usage notes
* The article (an) is used before vowel sounds and (optionally) before silent aitches, and (a) before consonant sounds. * The various article senses of (a), all are senses of (term).Etymology 2
From (etyl) anConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- An it please you, my lord.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (Original Version of 1797) 61-64:
- At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's Name.
Etymology 3
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From the (etyl) preposition an/on.Preposition
(English prepositions)- I was only going twenty miles an hour.