different between burette vs bulette

English

Alternative forms

• buret

Etymology

Borrowed from French burette.

Noun

burette (plural burettes)

1. (chemistry) A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration.
2. (religion) An altar cruet.

Translations

French

Noun

burette f (plural burettes)

1. oilcan
2. (chemistry) burette
3. (religion) cruet used to keep wine and water for Eucharist

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

burette f

1. plural of buretta

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu??l?t/, /bu??le?/

Noun

bulette (plural bulettes)

1. (fantasy role-playing games) A fictional species of land-dwelling shark in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
   • 1976-06, "The Bulette (a.k.a. Landshark)", "Creatures Features", The Dragon, volume 1, number 1, page 19

     The Bulette (pronounced boo-lay), has only two semi-vulnerable spots.

   • 1995-06-29, The Amorphous Mass <[email protected]>, "Re: Rotten, Sexist, Racist Worlds (WAS: Females playing...)", rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc, <[email protected]>#1/1

     The classic monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla, most hauntings, even the dinosaurs in _Jurassic Park_, etc) are all manifestations or consequences of human arrogance and ignorance; so violence, prejudice, ethical blindness and your local bulette are all part of the same idea.

   • 1997-04-07, Dan Davis <[email protected]>, "Re: Mithical Cretures Hits Beast Wars.", alt.toys.transformers, <[email protected]>#1/1

     Rippersnapper was a land shark. By the mythical name, this is a bulette.

   • 2001-04-20, "dave" <[email protected]>, "OK what is a "bulette"", rec.games.roguelike.adom, <[email protected]>

     My orcish barbarian who found a nice eternium 2hs in SMC was killed by a bulette in the second level of the unremarkable dungeon.

   • 2003, Steven Creech, Kevin Ruesch, Torn Asunder: Critical Hits, Bastion Press, Inc., page 93

     Bulettes can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground.

   • 2009-09, Jason Bulmahn, "Bulette", Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary, Paizo Publishing, ?ISBN, page 39

     The creation of some unknown arcanist in millennia past, the bulette has bred true to become one of the fiercest predators of the hills.

See also

• landshark

Anagrams

• blue tet, tubelet