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Unicorn vs Startup - What's the difference?

unicorn | startup |

As nouns the difference between unicorn and startup

is that unicorn is a mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead while startup is the act or process of starting a process or machine or startup can be a kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people.

unicorn

English

(wikipedia unicorn)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • *
    • 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.
  • 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.

    • Hyponyms

    * pegacorn, unipeg, unisus

    Meronyms

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    Holonyms

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    Derived terms

    * Chinese unicorn * Invisible Pink Unicorn * unicorn bait * unicorn root * unicornlike

    See also

    * alicorn * bicorne * monoceros * reem * tricorn, tricorne

    startup

    English

    (wikipedia startup)

    Etymology 1

    Alternative forms

    * (alter)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of starting a process or machine.
  • A new organization or business venture.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
    Antonyms
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    Etymology 2

    , describing a boot that starts up (reaches up) to the middle of the leg.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people
  • a kind of gaiter or legging

    • Anagrams

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