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Tripod vs Tripus - What's the difference?

tripod | tripus |

Tripus is a synonym of tripod.



As nouns the difference between tripod and tripus

is that tripod is a three-legged stand or mount while tripus is a Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prævaricator.

As a verb tripod

is to enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.

tripod

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a three-legged stand or mount
    • A lot of people don't develop pictures nor do they purchase real cameras anymore so cell phones now are adding better pixilation and tripod attachments to take steady pictures.
  • (slang) A man that has a large penis disproportionate to his short stature, especially a of a drawf
    • In the Austin Power's movie Mini-Me was said to be a tripod when he dropped his drawers but in real life actor Verne Troyer like most little people is actually of average endowment.

    Verb

    (tripod)
  • To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
    • I tripodded after my 6-mile run.

    See also

    * bipod * monopod * trivet

    Anagrams

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    tripus

    English

    Noun

    (tripodes)
  • A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, .
  • A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
  • (zoology, in cypriniform fishes) The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.

    • Synonyms

    * bachelor of the stool, (equivalent at Oxford University), tripos * (three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities) tripod * (bone in fishes) malleus, malleus Weberi

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    References

    * “ ?tripus]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989 * The Century Dictionary Online * Dictionary of Ichthyology, Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister * A Dictionary of Scientific Terms, Henderson I. F., Henderson W. D., BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ISBN: 1113194219, 9781113194213, p. 174 ----