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Yogi vs Yagi - What's the difference?

yogi | yagi |

As nouns the difference between yogi and yagi

is that yogi is a devotee or adherent of yoga while yagi is a directional radio or TV antenna consisting of two or more dipoles in the same plane with all dipoles parallel to each other.

As an adjective yogi

is attributive of lang=en.

yogi

English

(wikipedia yogi)

Alternative forms

* ioggue

Noun

(en noun)
  • (yoga) A devotee or adherent of yoga.
  • * 2009 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 30:
  • To this day, yogins find that these disciplines, which have measurable physical and neurological effects, evoke a sense of calm, harmony and equanimity that is comparable to the effect of music.
  • * 2012 , Lisa Allardice, The Guardian , 30 Mar 2012:
  • There is a special healthy menu, and the yogis can all eat together if they choose, but there's none of the birdseed-and-bulgur-wheat diet of a typical retreat.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Gurdjieff connects this type of breathing with yogi breathing.
    It's a yogi trick of some sort.
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    yagi

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A directional radio or TV antenna consisting of two or more dipoles in the same plane with all dipoles parallel to each other.
  • English eponyms ----