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Wing vs Neuron - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between wing and neuron

is that wing is an appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly while neuron is a cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.

As a verb wing

is to injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.

As a proper noun Neuron is

title of a peer reviewed journal established in 1988 by publisher Cell Press.

wing

English

(wikipedia)

Alternative forms

* whing (obsolete) * weng (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
  • (slang) Human arm.
  • Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.
  • One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
  • One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
  • (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
  • (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
  • A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
  • Passage by flying; flight.
  • to take wing
  • * Shakespeare
  • Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood.
  • Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Fiery expedition be my wing .
  • A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
  • Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
  • An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
  • A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
  • An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
  • # (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
  • # (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
  • (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
  • (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
  • (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
  • (Totten)
  • (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
  • (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.}}
  • (botany) A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.
  • (typography, informal, rare) =
  • * 1985 , David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary , page 378
  • ? wing , wedge, h?cek, inverted circumflex (Karel ?apek )
  • One of the sides of the stage in a theatre.
  • Synonyms

    * (panel of a car) fender (US), guard (Australia) * (sports position) forward

    Derived terms

    * left wing * on the wing * redwing * right wing * take under one's wing * wingman * wing it * winged * winger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
  • (lb) To fly.
  • *
  • *:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  • To add a wing (extra part) to.
  • (lb) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
  • (lb) To throw.
  • neuron

    English

    Alternative forms

    * neurone

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (cytology) A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons , work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}

    Synonyms

    * neurocyte * nerve cell

    Derived terms

    * neural * neuralgia * neuritis * neurology * neuronal * neuronic * neuronally * neuroscience * neurosis

    See also

    * neura * neurode * (wikipedia "neuron")