different between unicorn vs chimera

English

Etymology

From Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, and their source, Latin ?nicornis, from ?nus (“one”) + corn? (“horn”). Other senses from either rarity (e.g., possessing multiple skills) or by physical resemblance to having a horn (e.g., howitzer). The finance sense was coined by American investor Aileen Lee and first used in a 2013 article.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ju?n?k??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?jun?k??n/

Noun

unicorn (plural unicorns)

1. A mythical beast resembling a horse or deer with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.

   Hyponyms: pegacorn, unipeg, unisus

   Meronym: alicorn

   Holonym: blessing

2. (historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ??????): a reem or wild ox.
3. Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.
4. A caterpillar, Schizura unicornis, with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.
5. The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
6. (military) A howitzer.
7. Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
   1. (sexual slang) A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging and/or polyamory.
   2. (business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).

      Synonym: purple squirrel
   4. (finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.

      Coordinate term: decacorn

      • 2017, Pongsak Hoontrakul, Economic Transformation and Business Opportunities in Asia, Springer (?ISBN), page 273:

        In May 2016, out of 163 global unicorns, China had 31, with a total valuation of $154 billion or about 26 percent of global unicorn valuation.

8. (attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.

9. (historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

unicorn (third-person singular simple present unicorns, present participle unicorning, simple past and past participle unicorned)

1. (sexual slang) To participate in a sexual threesome as a bisexual addition to an established heterosexual couple.
2. (finance) To exceed a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars, while solely backed by venture capitalists.

See also

Further reading

• unicorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:unicorns on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• unicorns on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• unicorn at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Catalan

Noun

unicorn m (plural unicorns)

1. unicorn

Synonyms

• alicorn

Middle English

Noun

unicorn

1. Alternative form of unicorne

Romanian

Etymology

From French unicorne.

Adjective

unicorn m or n (feminine singular unicorn?, masculine plural unicorni, feminine and neuter plural unicorne)

1. one-horned

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English chimere, from French chimère, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek ??????? (khímaira, “chimera; female goat”), from ??????? (khímaros, “male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ei-. The Latin form has become more common from the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???m????/, /k?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ka??mi???/, /ka??m???/
• Hyphenation: chi?me?ra

Noun

chimera (plural chimeras)

1. (Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).
2. (mythology) Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
3. Anything composed of very disparate parts.
4. A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
   • 1818, anonymous [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, ?OCLC; republished as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus […] In Two Volumes, volume I, new (2nd) edition, London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1823, ?OCLC, page 71:

     It was very different, when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
5. (architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
6. (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
7. Usually chimaera: a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.

Alternative forms

• chimaera
• chimæra

Synonyms

• (fish): ghost shark, rabbitfish, ratfish
• (anything composed of very disparate parts): motley crew

Antonyms

• (anything composed of very disparate parts): monolith

Derived terms

Related terms

• Chimaera
• chimere

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of architecture

References

Further reading

• chimera (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• chimera (genetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chimaera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (fish)
• chimera (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• haremic

Italian

Etymology

From Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Khímaira).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki?me.ra/

Noun

chimera f (plural chimere)

1. chimera
2. chimera, a kind of shark of the genus Chimaera