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Yelm vs Ylem - What's the difference?

yelm | ylem |

Ylem is a anagram of yelm.



As nouns the difference between yelm and ylem

is that yelm is a bundle of straw used for thatch while ylem is in the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma of which the cosmos consisted at the time of recombination in an early stage of its expansion and cooling, when the first atoms formed and photons decoupled, the source of the cosmic background radiation.

As a verb yelm

is to prepare straw for use as thatch.

yelm

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a bundle of straw used for thatch
  • *1952 : The thatcher then laid the 'yelms', or bunches of drawn straw, on the laths, beginning at the eaves and working up towards the ridge. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England , p. 224.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to prepare straw for use as thatch
  • *1952 : The preparation of straw for thatch, which was known as 'yelming', consisted in damping it and 'drawing' it with a thatching-fork, or great comb, so as to get the straws parallel. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England , p. 224.

    • Anagrams

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    ylem

    English

    (wikipedia ylem)

    Noun

    (-)
  • In the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma of which the cosmos consisted at the time of recombination in an early stage of its expansion and cooling, when the first atoms formed and photons decoupled, the source of the cosmic background radiation.
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  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1959 , author= James Blish , title= A Clash of Cymbals (UK)/The Triumph of Time (USA) , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=171 , passage= The ylem was the primordial flux of neutrons out of which all else emerged.}}

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "ylem")

    Usage notes

    * The word ylem reappeared in popular books on science, following the discovery (in 1964-5) of the predicted (in 1948) cosmic background radiation and publication of its images composed from measurements by satellites (COBE in 1992 and WMAP in 2003).

    References

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    Anagrams

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