Turtle vs Crab - What's the difference?
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Any land or marine reptile of the order (l), characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body.
(Australia, British) A sea turtle.
(military) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
(computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
(computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
* 1997 , Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing
(printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
* 1919 , Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32?, page 48
To turn and swim upside down.
* 2009 , Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering? , page 149
To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
* 1973 , Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians , page 153
(video games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
A turtle dove.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
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A bad-tempered person.
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(label) A playing card with the rank of three.
(label) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
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* 1940 , (Horace Annesley Vachell),
To fish for crabs.
(transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 224:
To complain.
(intransitive, nautical, aviation) To drift sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
(obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
(rare) To back out of something.
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The crab apple or wild apple.
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The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
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(British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
As a proper noun turtle
is a river in saskatchewan, canada.As a noun crab is
a crustacean of the infraorder brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace or crab can be the crab apple or wild apple or crab can be the tree species , native of south america or crab can be short for carabiner.As a verb crab is
to fish for crabs or crab can be (obsolete) to irritate, make surly or sour.turtle
English
(wikipedia turtle)Etymology 1
Modification of (etyl) tortue (probably under the influence of (turtledove)). See (tortoise) for more.Noun
(en noun)- Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* African helmeted turtle * Afro-American sideneck turtle * Alabama red-bellied turtle * alligator turtle, alligator-turtle * American turtle * Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles * Arakan forest turtle * Australian short-necked turtle * Austro-American sideneck turtle * black marsh turtle * black turtle bean * Blanding's turtle * bog turtle * box turtle, box-turtle * chicken turtle, chicken-turtle * common snakeneck turtle * cooter turtle * diamond-backed turtle * dragon turtle * eastern long-neck turtle * Fitzroy River turtle * flatback turtle * Florida redbelly turtle * Fly River turtle * golden coin turtle * gopher turtle * greaved turtle * Greenland turtle * green turtle * have a turtle's head * hawk-billed turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle * horned turtle * land turtle * leaf turtle * leather turtle * leatherback turtle * leather-turtle * leathery turtle * loggerhead turtle, logger-headed turtle * lyre turtle * Madagascan big-headed turtle * map turtle * marine turtle * marsh turtle * mata mata turtle, matamata turtle * Mary River turtle * mock turtle * mock turtle soup * mud turtle * musk turtle * New Guinea snakeneck turtle * Olive Ridley turtle * painted turtle * pancake turtle * pig-nosed turtle, pig-nose turtle, pignose turtle * pitted-shelled turtle * plateless turtle * Plymouth redbelly turtle * pond turtle * purple turtler * red-bellied turtle * river turtle * roofed turtle * sea turtle, sea-turtle * side-necked turtle * silver stater with a turtle * snake-eating turtle * snake-necked turtle * snapping turtle, snapping-turtle * soft-shelled turtle, soft-shell turtle, softshell turtle * spiny turtle * spotted turtle * toad-headed turtle * twisted-necked turtle * tortoise-shell turtle * trunk turtle, trunk-turtle * turn the turtle * turn turtle * turning turtles * turtle-back, turtleback * turtle bean * turtleburger * turtle-corral * turtle cowrie, turtle cowry * turtle-crab * turtle-crawl * turtle-deck * turtledom * turtle-egging * turtle excluder device * turtle-footed * turtle-frolic * turtle graphics * turtle grass, turtle-grass * turtle-head, turtlehead * turtle hull * turtle-insect * turtle-kraal * turtle neck, turtle-neck, turtleneck * turtle peg, turtle-peg * turtle-press * turtler * turtle racing * turtles all the way down * turtle shell * turtle ship * turtle soup * turtle stone * turtle-shell * turtle-soup * turtle-stone * turtlet * turtle trade * turtle-twine * turtling * turtly * water turtle * western swamp turtle * wood turtleVerb
(turtl)- Were speeding when car turtled' Auto crashed into curb and ' turtled .
- I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.
- Of these, 80 turtled' (65%), 26 hunted and ' turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).
See also
* chelonian * hatchling (turtle young) * terrapin * tortoise * (Turtle)Etymology 2
(etyl) turtla, ultimately from (etyl) , of imitative origin.Noun
(en noun)- The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck .
Derived terms
* turtle-bird * turtle dove, turtle-dove, turtledove * turtleish, turtlish * turtleise, turtlise, turtleize, turtlizecrab
English
(wikipedia crab)Etymology 1
From (etyl) crabbe, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- -- "I suppose you wouldn't like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging." -- "I wouldn't mind," said Philip. -- "It's at Farnley, in Dorsetshire. Doctor South. You'd have to go down at once; his assistant has developed mumps. I believe it's a very pleasant place." There was something in the secretary's manner that puzzled Philip. It was a little doubtful. -- "What's the crab in it?" he asked.
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- Arrested by the low price of another “desirable residence”, I asked “What's the crab'?” The agent assured me that there was no ' crab . I fell in love with this house at sight. Happily, I discovered that it was reputed to be haunted.
Derived terms
* Alaska crab, Alaska king crab, Alaskan king crab * arrow crab * black crab * blue crab * blue swimmer crab * box-crab * catch a crab * Chinese crab * Chinese mitten crab * Christmas Island red crab * circular crab * coconut crab * come off crabs * crabbed * crabber * crabbery * crabbing * crabbish * crabby * crab cactus * crab canon, crab-canon * crab-catcher * crab-claw * crab-eater * crab-eating * crab face, crab-face * crab-faced * crab-favored, crab-favoured * crab-farming * crab-fish * crab-grass, crabgrass * crab-harrow * crab-hole * crab-holed * crablet * crab-like, crablike * crabling * crab-lobster * crab louse, crab-louse * crab mentality * crabmeat * Crab Nebula * crabologist * crab-pot * crab-pot valve * crab rock * crab-roller * crab's claw * crab's eye, crab's-eye * crab-shell * crab-sidle * crab-snouted * crab spider, crab-spider * crab-step * crab stick * crab-stone * crab-weed * crabwise * crab yaws * cut a crab * Dungeness crab * fiddler crab * flower crab * ghost crab * green crab * halloween crab * hard-shell crab * hermit crab * horseshoe crab * Jonah crab * king crab, king-crab * lady crab * land crab, land-crab * mangrove crab * mantis crab * masked crab * mole crab * mud crab * nobody-crab * oyster crab * palm crab * pea crab, pea-crab * porcelain crab * purse crab * racing crab * river crab * robber-crab * rock crab * sand crab * sea-crab * sentinel crab * shame-faced crab * shore crab, shore-crab * soft-shell crab * soldier crab, soldier-crab * spider crab, spider-crab * stilt crab * stone crab * strawberry crab * Tasmanian giant crab * thumbnail crab * tree crab * turn out crabs * velvet crab * white crabVerb
- ‘Just so we understand each other,’ he said after a pause. ‘If you crab this case, you'll be in a jam.’
Derived terms
* crabber * crabbingEtymology 2
(etyl) crabbe, of Germanic origin, plausibly from Scandinavian, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabbaNoun
(en noun)- I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
- And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;
- (Garrick)
Synonyms
* (crab apple) crab apple * (tree) crab appleDerived terms
* cherry crab * Chinese crab * crab apple, crab-apple, crabapple * crab-bat * crab-knob * crab-staff * crab-stick, crabstick * crab-stock * crab-tree * garland crab * Siberian crabVerb
(crabb)- Sickness sours or crabs our nature.
Etymology 3
Possibly a corruption of the genus nameDerived terms
* crab-nut * crab-oilEtymology 4
Alternation of carabinerReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 *