different between apricot vs noyau

English

Alternative forms

• apricock (archaic)

Etymology

Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abercoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic ???????????? (al-barq?q, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek ?????????? (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (m?lum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?e?.p??.k?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?e?.p??.k?t/, /?æ.p??.k?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /æep???k?t/, /æep???k?t/
• Hyphenation: apri?cot

Noun

apricot (countable and uncountable, plural apricots)

1. A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
2. The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
3. (color) A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.

4. A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
5. (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.

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6. (slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Related terms

• precocious

Translations

Adjective

apricot (comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot)

1. Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Translations

See also

• lekvar
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• apricot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Prunus armeniaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Prunus armeniaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• aprotic, parotic, patrico

German

Adjective

apricot (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) apricot-coloured

Synonyms

• aprikosenfarben

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French noyau.

Noun

noyau (plural noyaus)

1. A French liqueur made at Poissy in north central France from brandy and flavoured with almonds and the pits of apricots. [from 18th c.]
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:

     His coffee was excellent, and then came a case of liqueurs, noyau both white and red, etc.

2. (ethology) A small nucleus or core group of people or animals. [from 20th c.]
   • 1966 August 26, Richard Ardrey, "Strongest Bond of All - The Space We Own" in LIFE, page 58:

     Borders are violated by hungering males and famished females, and the ordered animosities of the noyau give way to a saturnalia of sexual adventure.

   • 1999, Ronald M. Nowak, Walker's Primates of the World, JHU Press ?ISBN, page 27

     The orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) also exhibits the noyau system and appears to be the only diurnal primate with a largely solitary lifestyle.

   • 2000, Sergio M. Pellis & Andrew N. Iwaniuk, "Adult-Adult Play in Primates: Comparative Analyses of Its Origin, Distribution and Evolution", Ethology 106, page 1089:

     This "noyau" pattern is found among various nocturnal strepsirrhines.

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130330004136/http://www.noyaudepoissy.com/pages/histoire.htm

French

Etymology

From Late Latin nuc?lis, from Latin nux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwa.jo/

Noun

noyau m (plural noyaux)

1. stone (of a fruit), pit (of a fruit)
2. group (of artists etc.); cell (of terrorists etc.)
3. (geology) core
4. (biology, physics) nucleus
5. (computing) kernel
6. (phonetics, phonology) nucleus of a syllable

   Antonyms: attaque, coda

Derived terms

• antinoyau
• noyautage
• noyauter

Related terms

• noix

Further reading

• “noyau” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).