different between turtle vs walrus

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??t?l/
• (US) enPR: tûr?t?l, IPA^(key): /?t?t?l/, [?t?????]
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?l

Etymology 1

Modification of Middle English tortou, tortu, from Old French tortüe (under the influence of Middle English turtel, turtur (“turtledove”), see Etymology 2 below), from Medieval Latin tortuca (compare Spanish tortuga), the same source of tortoise (see there for more). Displaced native Old English byrdling.

Alternative forms

• tortle (obsolete)

Noun

turtle (plural turtles)

1. (zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) shellpad, (archaic) shield-toad

2. (zoology, Australia, Britain, specifically) A marine reptile of that order.

   Synonym: sea turtle

3. (military, historical) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.

   Synonym: testudo

4. (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
5. (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
6. (printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
7. (computing theory) A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
8. (dance) A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
9. (television) A low stand for a lamp etc.
   • Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television

     Using an appropriate turtle allows the full range of pan and tilt adjustments on the luminaire and avoids possible heat damage to floor coverings.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

turtle (third-person singular simple present turtles, present participle turtling, simple past and past participle turtled)

1. To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
   • 1919, Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32, page 48

     Were speeding when car turtled […] Auto crashed into curb and turtled.

2. To turn and swim upside down.
3. To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
4. (video games, board games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.

Translations

See also

• chelonian
• hatchling (turtle young)
• terrapin
• tortoise

References

• turtle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Turtle on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Testudines on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Testudines on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

From Middle English turtle, tortle, turtel, turtul, from Old English turtle, turtla (“turtledove”), ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtledove”), of imitative origin.

Noun

turtle (plural turtles)

1. (now rare, archaic) A turtle dove.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck […] .

   • 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:

     As the turtle, every day has been a black day with her since her husband died, and what should we unruly members make here?

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Lutter, ruttle, turlet

Old English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtledove”), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?turt.le/, [?tur?t.le]

Noun

turtle f

1. turtle dove

Coordinate terms

• turtla m (“turtle dove (male)”)

Declension

English

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??l.??s/, /?w?l.??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?l.??s/, /?w?l.??s/

Noun

walrus (plural walruses or walrus or walrusses or (both nonstandard, proscribed, uncommon) walri or walrii)

1. A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
   • 1887 — James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251.

     Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:walrus.

Synonyms

• morse (obsolete)
• sea horse (rare)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• seal
• sea lion, sealion

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch walrus, probably from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross, from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (“horse-whale”).

Noun

walrus (plural walrusse)

1. walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Cebuano

Etymology

From English walrus, from Danish hvalros, an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (literally “horse-whale”). The term may have entered English via Dutch walrus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: wal?rus

Noun

walrus

1. a walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Dutch

Etymology

The origin of this word is not wholly certain, with several theories proposed. Probably borrowed from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross, from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (“horse-whale”). Equivalent to wal (“whale; large sea-animal”) +? ros (“horse”). The Old Norse word may, however, been a folk-etymological modification of Old Norse rossmal, related to Proto-Germanic *rusta-, from the rust colour of the animal. Preference for borrowing the inverted form could have been due to the influence of the already existing Dutch compound walvis (“whale”, literally “whale-fish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???lr?s/
• Hyphenation: wal?rus

Noun

walrus m (plural walrussen, diminutive walrusje n)

1. walrus, any member of the family Odobenidae of which Odobenus rosmarus is the sole extant member

Derived terms

• walrussnor
• walrustand

Descendants

• Afrikaans: walrus

References