different between callups vs callus
callups
English
Noun
callups
- plural of callup
Anagrams
- calls up, upcalls
callups From the web:
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callus
English
Etymology
From Latin callum.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /?kæl?s/
- Rhymes: -æl?s
- Homophone: callous
Noun
callus (plural calluses or calli)
- A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
- 2011,David Foster Wallace The Pale King, page 17:
- Sylvanshine had once been on a first date with a Xerox rep who had complex and slightly repulsive patterns of callus on her fingers from playing the banjo semi-professionally
- 2011,David Foster Wallace The Pale King, page 17:
- The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
- (botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
- (entomology) A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).
Translations
Verb
callus (third-person singular simple present calluses, present participle callusing, simple past and past participle callused)
- (intransitive) To form such hardened tissue.
Translations
Anagrams
- sulcal
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