different between surface vs barnacle

English

Etymology

From French surface.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??f?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??f?s/

Noun

surface (plural surfaces)

1. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
2. The outside hull of a tangible object.
3. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, […].

4. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
5. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Stocqueler to this entry?)

Synonyms

• overside
• superfice (archaic)

Derived terms

Related terms

• surficial

Translations

Verb

surface (third-person singular simple present surfaces, present participle surfacing, simple past and past participle surfaced)

1. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
2. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
3. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
4. (transitive) To bring to the surface.
   • 2007, Patrick Valentine, The Sage of Aquarius (page 182)

     Sage went immediately to work; Damien surfaced the submarine and readied the group to meet outside the hatch.

5. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
6. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
7. (transitive) To make information or facts known.
8. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
9. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

Translations

French

Etymology

sur- +? face, calque of Latin superficies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.fas/
• Homophones: surfaces, surfacent

Noun

surface f (plural surfaces)

1. surface

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

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