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Twaddle vs Dyne - What's the difference?

twaddle | dyne |

As nouns the difference between twaddle and dyne

is that twaddle is empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish while dyne is a unit of force in the cgs system that is equal to the force which generates a velocity of one centimeter per second acting on one gram for one second symbol: dyn.

As a verb twaddle

is to talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

twaddle

English

(wikipedia twaddle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish
  • A twaddler.

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    Quotations

    ;nonsense * 1918 , , Prelude , Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 118, *: Yet she knew that she'd send it and she'd always write that kind of twaddle to Nan Pym. ;rubbish * 1887 , , A Study In Scarlet , Beeton's Christmas Annual, (Chapter 2 - The Science of Deduction), pages 1-95 (exact page number not known). *: "What ineffable twaddle !" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table, "I never read such rubbish in my life."

    Verb

  • To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling .}}

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    dyne

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of force in the CGS system that is equal to the force which generates a velocity of one centimeter per second acting on one gram for one second. Symbol: dyn.

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    External links

    * (wikipedia "dyne")

    References

    * “ dyne]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

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