different between spectacles vs barnacle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?kt?kl?z/
• Hyphenation: spec?ta?cles

Noun

spectacles pl (plural only)

1. plural of spectacle
2. (plural only, formal) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
3. (cricket) Synonym of pair (“score of zero runs in both innings”)

Derived terms

• John Lennon spectacles
• rose-tinted spectacles
• specky (someone who wears spectacles)

Synonyms

• eyeglasses (US), glasses, pair of eyeglasses (US), pair of glasses, pair of specs (colloquial), pair of spectacles, specs (colloquial)

Translations

Further reading

• Spectacles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Noun

spectacles m

1. plural of spectacle

English

Etymology

From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barin?kos, from *barin? (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *g?r?H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-?kos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-?os; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek ????? (lépas, “rock”) which gave ????? (lepás, “limpet”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??n?kl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??n?kl?/
• Hyphenation: bar?na?cle

Noun

barnacle (plural barnacles)

1. A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.

   Hypernyms: arthropod, crustacean

2. The barnacle goose.
3. (engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
4. (computing, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
5. (software engineering, slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.

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6. (obsolete, in the plural) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.

   Synonym: twitch

7. (archaic, Britain, slang, in the plural) A pair of spectacles.
8. (slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
9. (slang) A worldly sailor.

   Synonym: shellback

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

barnacle (third-person singular simple present barnacles, present participle barnacling, simple past and past participle barnacled)

1. To connect with or attach.
   • 2009, Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 178:

     Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.

2. To press close against something.
   • 2002, Douglas Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic, Vintage Canada (2002), ?ISBN, page 16:

     He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.

See also

• limpet

Further reading

• barnacle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) , “Barnacle”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
• barnacle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• barnacle (slang) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• balancer