different between burette vs curette

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.

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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

Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

curette (plural curettes)

1. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument for cleaning a diseased surface.

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Verb

curette (third-person singular simple present curettes, present participle curetting, simple past and past participle curetted)

1. (transitive, medicine) To scrape with a curette.

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