What's the difference between beard and moustache?

Beard


Definition:

  • (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
  • (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
  • (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
  • (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
  • (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
  • (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
  • (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
  • (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
  • (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
  • (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
  • (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
  • (n.) An imposition; a trick.
  • (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
  • (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (2) I've seen DJs in clubs with beards that make them look more like Charles Manson on a scruffy day than the cutting edge of cool, but, apparently, the two are synonymous these days.
  • (3) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
  • (4) Koji Uehara, the one without a beard, just picked up from where he left off in the regular season, and continued to destroy opponents.
  • (5) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (6) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
  • (7) And in a broader sense, the sort of Conservatives who think intelligently and strategically – and there are more of them than you think – fret that a bearded 66-year-old socialist has ignited political debate in a way that absolutely nobody in the mainstream predicted.
  • (8) Some of them are foreign, they have long beards and we don't want to go near them.
  • (9) In his passport photograph, applied for in June 2008, Brown has grown a beard and his temples have gone grey.
  • (10) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
  • (11) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
  • (12) His beard, axillary hair and pubic hair were all normal.
  • (13) I do need a haircut, but I have had beards for many years.
  • (14) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had grown a beard in the eight days before he carried out the attack and told friends “the significance of the beard is religious”, prosecutor François Molins told a press conference.
  • (15) Reading East's Rob Wilson attacked a whingeing bearded lefty, the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • (16) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
  • (17) Cue start of the second half, and he's back on, beard and all."
  • (18) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
  • (19) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
  • (20) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.

Moustache


Definition:

  • (n.) Mustache.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They’re not moustache-twirling villains that are going, “ah ha ha that’s great”, they’re going: “You’re right.
  • (2) I was mistaken for Prince once in Africa when I had a moustache.
  • (3) * The trajectories of moustaches and Movember are now crossing, in a year when facial hair became the aesthetic calling card of hipsters: “I don’t know about this whole hipster association,” explains Travis Garone, one of the original founders of Movember.
  • (4) Wealthy, charismatic, aristocratic, 6ft 2ins and with a luxuriant moustache, he led a decadent life.
  • (5) Infectivity studies with this virus in both white-moustached (S. mystax) and white-lipped marmosets demonstrated that the virus is not lethal to white-moustached marmosets (perhaps a more resistant species) at 1,000 TCID(50).
  • (6) Unfortunately, Tammy’s test wasn’t good enough, and her attempt resulted in a “head, a moustache and necktie”.
  • (7) Clinical examination showed an intelligent man with normal facial appearance and moustache and small firm testes.
  • (8) When the famous Rivels clowns recently came to a leading Berlin music-hall with their act, which used to include a parody of Charlie Chaplin, the clown who played the mock Charlie abandoned his little moustache and bowler and appeared in another disguise.
  • (9) But then for many men, this is the draw: moustache-wearers are the last remaining male subculture, a tribe naturally culled by growth hormones – and hell, we all want what we can’t have.
  • (10) It was compared with Duchamp drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa.
  • (11) There was perifocal edema in the hypothalamus adjacent to the intraventricular tumor, the optic tracts, and the posterior limbs of the internal capsules, resembling the shape of a moustache on axial computed tomographic and MRI scans.
  • (12) Workmates thought of her as hard-working and fun – she loved dressing up in silly clothes and false moustaches, but she was described by police as "emotionally vulnerable".
  • (13) It is a relatively simple method of providing tissue to the injured lip with advantages over traditional methods in that it is single-staged and provides the possibility for hair growth in the form of a camouflaging moustache.
  • (14) "Ironically, bigodes (which translates to moustaches in Portuguese) might actually be the answer, not the problem.
  • (15) Vitaly continues to bring his collection of Soviet cameras, photographs and other paraphernalia to an outdoor flea market, where the afternoon sun gleamed off a Lenin bust that he had repainted to look like a "'90s gangster" with a moustache and a polka-dot tie.
  • (16) It’s also worth remembering that while beards have the dual effect of keeping one warm while hiding one’s chin, moustaches are almostly completely pointless, serving no purpose other than to reflect the fact that you can grow one.
  • (17) The Huntsman girls clearly have an issue with moustaches.
  • (18) The only art scene in Glasgow at the time was figurative painting: people with long greasy hair and moustaches who were like, "I could've been a shipbuilder, but I decided to be a painter instead."
  • (19) Michael Ginsberg has a handlebar moustache and loud jacket straight out of Anchorman.
  • (20) This summation begins with a string of keywords: "trucker hats; undershirts called 'wifebeaters' worn as outerwear; the aesthetic of basement rec-room pornography, flash-lit Polaroids, fake wood panelling; Pabst Blue Ribbon ; 'porno' or 'paedophile' moustaches; aviator glasses; Americana T-shirts for church socials, etc; tube socks; the late albums of Johnny Cash produced by Rick Rubin ; and tattoos."

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