moth vs butterfly : what is the difference between a moth and a butterfly? vs butterfly

moth

Definitions

noun

  1. typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae

Examples

There are a few plotlines and characters - Sophie's mother in particular - that are somewhat redundant and unnecessary.

Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.

His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten!

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butterfly

Definitions

noun

  1. diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
  2. a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down

verb

  1. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
  2. flutter like a butterfly
  3. cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking

Examples

Ladies in Blue," a tribute to the pill-popping entourage that surrounded the "Iron Butterfly," as she was known, recalls the cooing stomp of ABBA; Kate Pierson of the B-52s belts "The Whole Man" as if it's one of her own hits.

She had wiggled through a tot-sized aperture in the alcove, and toddled over to a display of butterfly nets four feet away.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hand can't hit, what the eye can't see. Muhammad Ali 

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