Tiger vs Monkey - What's the difference?
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Panthera tigris , a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
# A male tiger.
A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The Beginnings
A leopard.
* 1907 , Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld , Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:
(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
* 2010 , Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood
(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
* Shakespeare
(US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
(Webster 1913)
Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.
(label) A mischievous child.
Five hundred pounds sterling.
(label) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
(label) A person with minimal intelligence and/or (bad) looks.
(label) A face card.
(label) A menial employee who does a repetitive job.
The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
(label) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XII
As nouns the difference between tiger and monkey
is that tiger is Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia while monkey is any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.As a proper noun Tiger
is a town in Georgia.As a verb monkey is
to meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.tiger
English
(wikipedia tiger)Alternative forms
* tigre (obsolete) * tyger (dated)Noun
(en noun)- (Dickens)
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger , thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
- Don't Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
- As for heinous tiger , Tamora.
- three cheers and a tiger
Synonyms
* Panthera tigrisDerived terms
* Asian Tiger (business) * Bali tiger * Bengal tiger * Sumatran tiger * Siberian tiger * Tasmanian tiger * blind tiger * have a tiger by the tail * paper tiger * tiger beetle * tiger cat * tiger lily * tiger moth * tiger mother * tiger shark * tiger snake * tigereye * tigerish * tigerlikeHypernyms
* felidAnagrams
* South African English ----monkey
English
(wikipedia monkey)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (menial employee) phone monkey, code monkey * brass monkey * capuchin monkey * grease monkey * green monkey * green monkey disease * monkey barge * monkey bars * monkey bike * monkey boot * monkey bread * monkey business * monkey dance * monkey drill * monkey-faced owl * monkey flip * monkey humping a football * monkey in the middle * monkey jacket * monkey motion * monkey nut * monkey orchid * monkey pole * monkey rum * monkey show * monkey spoon * monkey squirrel * monkey stove * Monkey Ward's * monkey orange * monkey pistol * monkey thorn * monkey wrench * not give a monkey'sVerb
- ''Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.
- “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps! Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come close to the original?”