What's the difference between pentagram and pentangle?

Pentagram


Definition:

  • (n.) A pentacle or a pentalpha.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a self-portrait from 1983, he poses in front of a pentagram with a machine-gun: Satan's terrorist.
  • (2) The theoretical distribution of signs permutations in tetragrams, pentagrams and hexagrams constitute the 'controls' with which the empirical data can be compared.
  • (3) Greaves said one potential design involves a pentagram, a satanic symbol, while another is meant to be an interactive display for children.
  • (4) In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like – yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon.

Pentangle


Definition:

  • (n.) A pentagon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chris Bryant, the Labour shadow minister who led his party's Newark operation, talks of a complex "pentangle of switching": some Labour voters moved to Ukip to give Cameron a kicking, others who traditionally voted Lib Dem as an "up yours" to the political establishment have slipped over to the Farageists, and so on.
  • (2) "Well, my current listening habits have involved Pentangle and Swans, so maybe not," laughs Fleming.

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