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Unique vs Chrome - What's the difference?

unique | chrome |

As adjectives the difference between unique and chrome

is that unique is (not comparable) being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched while chrome is chrome / chromium (attributive).

As a noun unique

is a thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.

As a verb chrome is

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unique

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
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  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique . The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
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  • Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
  • Particular, characteristic.
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  • (proscribed) Of a rare quality, unusual.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique , the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.
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    Usage notes

    The comparative and superlative forms more unique'' and ''most unique'', as well as the use of ''unique'' with modifiers as in ''fairly unique'' and ''very unique , are sometimes proscribed, with the reasoning that either something is unique or it is not.

    Synonyms

    (checksyns) * one of a kind * sui generis * singular

    Derived terms

    * uniqueness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.
  • * De Quincey
  • The phoenix, the unique of birds.

    chrome

    English

    (wikipedia chrome)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Chromium, when used to plate other metals.
  • (computing, graphical user interface) The basic structural elements used in a graphical user interface, such as window frames and scroll bars, as opposed to the content.
  • Synonyms

    * chromium

    Derived terms

    * bright chrome * chrome alum * chrome-ammonia alum * chrome black * chrome blue * chrome brick * chrome colour * chrome diopside * chrome dome * chrome furnace * chrome garnet * chrome green * chrome handler * chrome ink * chrome iron * chrome iron ore * chromel * chrome leather * chromeless * chrome maker * chrome-nickel steel * chrome ocher, chrome ochre * chrome orange * chrome red * chrome spinel * chrome solid * chrome-tanned * chrome-tanning * chrome tape * chrome violet * chrome yellow * chromic * chromite * chromous * ferrochrome * hard chrome * mercurochrome * Nichrome * lemon chrome * orange chrome * zinc chrome

    Verb

    (chrom)
  • To plate with chrome.
  • Synonyms

    * chromium-plate