The difference between Bald and Callow
When used as nouns, bald means a mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the southern appalachian mountains, whereas callow means a callow young bird.
When used as adjectives, bald means having no hair, fur or feathers. having no hair on the head, whereas callow means bald.
Bald is also verb with the meaning: to become bald.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bald and Callow
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Bald as an adjective:
Having no hair, fur or feathers. Having no hair on the head.
Examples:
"a bald man with a moustache"
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Bald as an adjective (by extension):
Denuded of any hair- or fur-like covering.
Examples:
"The [[bald cypress bald cypress]] is a tree that loses its leaves in winter."
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Bald as an adjective:
Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
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Bald as an adjective:
Unembellished.
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Bald as an adjective:
Without evidence or support being provided.
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Bald as a noun (Appalachian):
A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
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Bald as a verb (intransitive):
To become bald.
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Callow as an adjective (obsolete):
Bald.
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Callow as an adjective:
Unfledged (of a young bird).
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Callow as an adjective:
Immature, lacking in life experience.
Examples:
"Those three young men are particularly callow youths."
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Callow as an adjective:
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
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Callow as an adjective:
Shallow or weak-willed.
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Callow as an adjective (of a brick):
Unburnt.
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Callow as an adjective:
Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
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Callow as a noun:
A callow young bird.
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Callow as a noun:
A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
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Callow as a noun:
An alluvial flat.