Unicorn vs Dollar - What's the difference?
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(rft-sense)A mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Great Britain and of Scotland.
(historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ); a reem or wild ox.
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Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax.
The larva of a unicorn moth.
The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
A howitzer.
Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is .
(by extension) Money generally.
* Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
Colloquially in the United Kingdom, a quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
* 1990 October 28, (Paul Simon), “Born at the Right Time”, (The Rhythm of the Saints) , Warner Bros.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
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(attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
* 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London;
* 1956 The Spectator Vol.197 p.342:
As nouns the difference between unicorn and dollar
is that unicorn is a mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead while dollar is dollar.unicorn
English
(wikipedia unicorn)Noun
(en noun)- God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn : he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
Hyponyms
* pegacorn, unipeg, unisusMeronyms
*Holonyms
*Derived terms
* Chinese unicorn * Invisible Pink Unicorn * unicorn bait * unicorn root * unicornlikeSee also
* alicorn * bicorne * monoceros * reem * tricorn, tricornedollar
English
Noun
(en noun)- Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar , magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
- We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
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Hansard vol 504 col 271, 22 July 1952:
- The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
- For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others : dollar' films and ' dollar tobacco.