different between horseshoe vs omega

English

Etymology

From Middle English hors sho, horssho, horscho, hors schoo, equivalent to horse +? shoe.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??s.?u?/, (colloquial) /?h??.?u?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h???s.?u?/, /?h???.?u?/

Noun

horseshoe (plural horseshoes)

1. The U-shaped shoe of a horse, now typically made of metal; by extension, a representation of this used to play the game horseshoes, hung as a luck charm, etc.
   • 1887, David A. Wells, "The Economic Disturbances since 1873", III, Popular Science 31 (no. 37): 595

     And what has been thus affirmed of other leading commodities; the blacksmith, for example, no longer making, but buying his horseshoes, nails, nuts, and bolts;

   • 1984, Leda Blumberg, The Horselover's Handbook: An Introduction to Owning, Caring For, and Riding Horses (?ISBN), page 46:

     The ancient Romans [...] used leather horseshoes; the Chinese made straw sandals for their mounts; and American Indians used leather moccasins, which they tied around their horses ' ankles. In days of old, people took their horses to the smithy to be shod.
2. The U shape of a horseshoe.
3. (bodybuilding, slang) A well-developed set of triceps brachii muscles.
4. (logic) The symbol ?.
5. (Midwestern US) An open-faced sandwich originating from Springfield, Illinois, consisting of thick-sliced toasted bread, often Texas toast, a hamburger patty, French fries, and a cheese sauce.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

horseshoe (third-person singular simple present horseshoes, present participle horseshoeing, simple past and past participle horseshoed or horseshod)

1. To apply horseshoes to (a horse).

Usage notes

The shorter form shoe is more commonly used.

Synonyms

• (to apply horseshoes): shoe

Translations

See also

• farrier

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ? ???? (ô méga), meaning “big ?” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???m???/, /???mi???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /o??m???/, /?o??me???/

Noun

omega (plural omegas or omegala)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: ?; lowercase: ?.
   • 2013, Albert Schachter & Fabienne Marchand, "Fresh Light on the Institutions and Religious Life of Thespiai: Sixe New Inscriptions from the Thespiai Survey", page 284 in Paraskevi Martzavou & Nikolaos Papazarkadas (editors), Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis

     The fact that the letter was incised above the line indicates that it is probably an omega.

2. (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
   • 1978, New International Version, Revelation 22:13

     I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

   • 2012, FX Moore, Confed: 2721: Xenocide War, page 383

     And there is always the Omega Option. At any time you can go to Manhome, go down to the vaults, lift the black cover on your clone's stasis chamber, and push the black button.

3. (physics) Angular velocity; symbol: ?.
   • 2013, Issues in General Physics Research: 2013 Edition, page 1084

     The ratio between the rho and omega cross section is obtained.

4. (slang) An omega male.
5. (finance) The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
6. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a sexually-submissive (and sometimes secondary) gender/sex that is driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.
   • 2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317:

     Often omegas go into heat and release pheromones that drive alphas wild.

   • 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 5:

     By writing a male character as an omega, experiences of being treated as other in female-coded ways are imagined to be experienced by a character who represents the male norm.

   • 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, "When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom", in The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction (ed. Ashton Spacey), page 126:

     Sweet as Peaches on the Tongue can be defined as the typical dark A/B/O story, wherein a rich alpha gentleman (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) comes across a very young, virginal omega (Will Graham) by accident.

Synonyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): elasticity, lambda

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Derived terms

• antiomega
• omega-3 fatty acid

Translations

Anagrams

• Ogema

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o?m?.??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u?m?.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?me.?a/

Noun

omega f (plural omegues)

1. Omega; the Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).

Czech

Alternative forms

• ómega

Noun

omega f

1. omega (Greek letter)

Finnish

Noun

omega

1. Alternative spelling of oomega.

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?m?.?a/
• Rhymes: -??a

Noun

omega m or f (invariable)

1. omega (letter; scientific symbol)

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ????? (oméga)

Noun

omega m (uncountable)

1. omega

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?me?a/, [o?me.??a]

Noun

omega f (plural omegas)

1. omega; the Greek letter ?, ?