different between cauliflower vs ocean

English

Etymology

From 16th century cole-florye. Compare Latin caulis, French chou-fleur, Italian cavolfiore.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?l.i.fla?.?/, /?k?l.?.fla?.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?l.??fla?.?/, /?k?l.??fla?.?/

Noun

cauliflower (countable and uncountable, plural cauliflowers)

1. Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
2. The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
3. The swelling of a cauliflower ear.

Derived terms

• broccoflower
• cauliflower cheese
• cauliflower ear
• cauli
• caulini

Translations

Verb

cauliflower (third-person singular simple present cauliflowers, present participle cauliflowering, simple past and past participle cauliflowered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell up like a cauliflower ear.
   • 1947, Elliott Chaze, The Stainless Steel Kimono (page 49)

     I noticed his right ear was badly cauliflowered and that explained a number of things. It wasn't a new job of cauliflowering.

   • 1960, Transactions of the British Ceramic Society (page 281)

     Returning to your first point, the cauliflowering of magnesite bricks — we presume that this is due to your using high concentrations of oxygen for blowing the furnace, giving high checker-temperatures.

   • 1974, Alexander G. Weygers, The Modern Blacksmith (page 39)

     The soft steel of the back edge by now has cauliflowered over from hammering on it.

English

Etymology

From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin ?ceanus, originally from Ancient Greek ??????? (?keanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity). Displaced native Old English g?rse??.

Also commonly referred to as the ocean sea, the sea of ocean (compare Latin mare ?ceanum; Old French mer oceane, occeanne mer). Compare Saterland Frisian Oceoan (“ocean”), West Frisian oseaan (“ocean”), Dutch oceaan (“ocean”), German Low German Ozeaan (“ocean”), German Ozean (“ocean”), Danish ocean (“ocean”), Swedish ocean (“ocean”), French océan (“ocean”), Italian oceano (“ocean”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?.??n/
• Rhymes: -????n
• Hyphenation: o?cean

Noun

ocean (countable and uncountable, plural oceans)

1. (countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
2. (uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.

3. (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.

4. A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).

Synonyms

• (large body of water): the ogin (UK, nautical and navy)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• sea
• lake

References

• Ocean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acone, canoe

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ?ceanus.

Noun

ocean m (plural oceans)

1. ocean

Related terms

• oceanic
• oceanografia

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 686.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?s?.an/

Noun

ocean m inan

1. ocean

Declension

Derived terms

• oceaniczny
• oceanografia

Romanian

Etymology

From French océan

Noun

ocean n (plural oceane)

1. ocean

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• okè?n (Serbia, Bosnia)

Etymology

From Latin Oceanus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (?keanós, “Oceanus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ot?s?a?n/
• Hyphenation: o?ce?an

Noun

ocè?n m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (Croatia) ocean

Declension

Related terms

• prekoocenaski