Tumbleweed vs Octothorpe - What's the difference?
tumbleweed | octothorpe |
Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, , etc.
(attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received from one’s audience. Gives the impression that a tumbleweed has passed through the room, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert.
* 2000 January 21, "Plsntgrn" in alt.music.progressive, "Re: SOAR Budget (A Long Guestimate)" [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.progressive/msg/c5bc2926d0712699]:
* 2005 , Trevor Wright, How to Be a Brilliant English Teacher [http://books.google.com/books?id=5V64WA533MoC], ISBN 041533246X, page 68:
(chiefly, US) The hash or square symbol (), used mainly in telephony and computing
* 1982 , Willard R. Espy, A Children's Almanac of Words at Play , Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., page 230
* 2004 , Andrew Pitonyak, Openoffice.Org Macros Explained , Hentzenwerke, page 139
As nouns the difference between tumbleweed and octothorpe
is that tumbleweed is any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, , etc while octothorpe is (chiefly|us) the hash or square symbol (), used mainly in telephony and computing.tumbleweed
English
Noun
(wikipedia tumbleweed)- Putting an ad in the local paper that Spock's Beard and Arena are in town will get you a tumbleweed response and some wasted revenue.
- "Why do families argue?" may only induce the tumbleweed response. (Could you answer that question out of the blue?)
Derived terms
* tumbleweed momentoctothorpe
English
Alternative forms
* octothorpNoun
(en noun)- Octothorp is the
- on a push-button telephone. Rumor at the telephone company is that a man named Charles B. Octothorp, wanting to make his name famous...
- Strings are enclosed in double quotation marks, numbers are not enclosed in anything, and dates and Boolean values are enclosed between octothorpe (
- ) characters.