Tomato vs Bike - What's the difference?
tomato | bike |
A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum , having edible fruit
The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture
* Note: The US Supreme Court in
A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
(slang) A desirable-looking woman.
(slang) A stupid act or person.
to pelt with tomatoes
to add tomatoes to (a dish)
English nouns with irregular plurals
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A short form of bicycle.
A short form of motorbike.
(slang) A promiscuous woman; from “the town bike (everybody rides her)”.
To ride a bike.
To travel by bike.
(Scotland, Northern England) A nest of wasps or hornets.
*1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 107:
*:he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he'd once climbed which had a wasp's byke in it unbeknown to him.
As nouns the difference between tomato and bike
is that tomato is tomato while bike is a short form of bicycle or bike can be (scotland|northern england) a nest of wasps or hornets.As a verb bike is
to ride a bike.tomato
English
(wikipedia tomato)Noun
(en-noun)Nix v. Hedden (1893)ruled that a tomato is a vegetable.
- Lookit the legs on that hot tomato !
Synonyms
* * (obsolete)Derived terms
{{der3, beef tomato , cherry tomato , plum tomato , tomato can , tomato juice , tomato paste , , tomato sauce , tomato soup , }}Verb
(en verb)bike
English
Etymology 1
From , by shortening, and possibly alteration. One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle'' is parsed to ''bi(cy)c(le).'' An alternative explanation is that ''bicycle'' is shortened to ''bic(ycle),'' and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in ''bicycle'' but retained as [k] in bike ; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).''An Etymological Brainteaser: The Shortening of Bicycle to Bike, Robert B. Hausmann, American Speech, Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 1976), pp. 272–274
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (motorcycle): motorbike * (woman): slapper (British''), slag (''British )Derived terms
* (bicycle) cross bike; dirt bike; like riding a bike; mountain bike; road bike; utility bike * (motorcycle) biker; bikey or bikie (Australia ); quad bike * (woman) town bike, village bikeSee also
* trikeReferences
Verb
(bik)- I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
- It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.