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Thong vs Swarm - What's the difference?

thong | swarm |

As nouns the difference between thong and swarm

is that thong is pine (tree of the genus pinus ) while swarm is a large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.

As a verb swarm is

(lb) to move as a swarm .

thong

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strip of leather.
  • (usually, in the plural, Australia, US) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
  • * 1964 , The Beach Boys, All Summer Long
    • T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
  • * 2006 , Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour , Thomson, page 108,
    • Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs , shorts and T-shirts.
  • * 2008 , Steve Parish, Eccentric Australia , page 104,
    • Thongs are the favoured footwear for many Aussies, especially near the beaches, but most people in the Outback find that they can?t put a foot wrong with a tough, nicely worn-in pair or workboots.
  • * 2009 , Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney , Lonely Planet, page 126,
    • You shouldn?t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you?ve splashed $5000 on daddy?s credit card.
  • (UK, US, New Zealand) An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.
    • No! I won't buy you a thong . You're too young for that.

    Synonyms

    * (an item of footwear) flip-flop, jandal (New Zealand) * (a undergarment or swimwear) G-string, butt floss

    See also

    * sandal

    swarm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
  • * Milton
    • a deadly swarm of hornets
  • A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
    • a swarm of meteorites
  • * Addison
    • those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]
  • (label) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To move as a swarm .
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
  • (lb) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:Every place swarms with soldiers.
  • (lb) To fill a place as a swarm .
  • (lb) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
  • To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
  • * (1748–1828)
  • *:At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
  • *1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,
  • *:She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
  • To breed multitudes.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Not so thick swarmed once the soil / Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.

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