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disparate(dictionary)
disparate(dictionary)

bug(1) (iou) and disparate (medicine)


bug(1) (iou)



bug noun1.LME-L19.
[Rel. to BOGGARD, BOGLE, etc. Connection with Welsh bwg, bwgan (ghost, hobgoblin), bygwl (fear, threat) uncertain. Cf. BUGBEAR.]
An (imaginary) object of terror; a bugbear, a bogey; a scarecrow.
Comb.: bug-word a word meant to frighten.

disparate (medicine)


disparate


1. Unequal; dissimilar; separate. "Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them." (Coleridge)

2. <logic> Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions.

Origin: L. Disparatus, p. P. Of disparare to part, separate; dis- + parare to make ready, prepare.

Source: Websters Dictionary