different between bulge vs node

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?ld?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b?ld?/, /b?ld?/

Etymology

From Middle English bulge (“leather bag; hump”), from Old Northern French boulge (“leather bag”), from Late Latin bulga (“leather sack”), from Gaulish *bulga, *bulgos, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”). Cognate with bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. Doublet of budge. See also budget.

Noun

bulge (plural bulges)

1. Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
2. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
3. (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
4. (colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
5. (figuratively) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
   • 1930, Stanford University, Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute (volume 7, page 204)

     A second bulge in prices occurred during September 30 — October 9. The rise of prices up to October 3 was in part apparently a technical adjustment of the markets, a reaction to the preceding decline.

Derived terms

• cockbulge
• manbulge

Translations

See also

• bulge bracket

Verb

bulge (third-person singular simple present bulges, present participle bulging, simple past and past participle bulged)

1. (intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).

   The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.

   He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
2. (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
   • 1739, William Broome, “The Battle of the Gods and Titans” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Henry Lintot, p. 253,^[2]

     Fatal to Man! at once all Ocean roars,

     And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.

Derived terms

• abulge

Translations

References

Anagrams

• bugle

English

Etymology

From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin n?dus. Doublet of knot and nodus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

node (plural nodes)

1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
2. (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ? and ?.
3. (botany) A leaf node.
4. (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
5. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
6. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
7. (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
9. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
10. (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
11. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
12. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
13. (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
15. (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

Synonyms

• (computer networking): host
• (graph theory): vertex

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: nód

Translations

See also

• neurode

References

• node on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Deno, Deon, Done, Endo, done, endo, endo-, oden, onde, oned

Danish

Noun

node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)

1. (music) note

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

node

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of nood

Japanese

Romanization

node

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

n?de

1. vocative singular of n?dus

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?dus. Doublet of knotte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??d(?)/

Noun

node (plural nodez)

1. (medicine, Late Middle English) lump, swelling
2. (rare, Late Middle English) knot, tie

Descendants

• English: node
  • ? Irish: nód

References

• “n?de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin nodus (“knot”). Akin to English node.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²nu?.d?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)

1. a node

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hnoða.

Alternative forms

• noda

Noun

node n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural node, definite plural noda)

1. Synonym of nyste

Etymology 3

Verb

node (present tense noder, past tense nodde, past participle nodd/nodt, passive infinitive nodast, present participle nodande, imperative nod)

1. Synonym of neia

References

• “node” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.