The difference between Bone and Buck
When used as nouns, bone means a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates, whereas buck means a male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.
When used as verbs, bone means to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from, whereas buck means to copulate, as bucks and does.
Bone is also adjective with the meaning: of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bone and Buck
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Bone as a noun (uncountable):
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
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Bone as a noun (countable):
Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
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Bone as a noun:
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
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Bone as a noun:
A bonefish
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Bone as a noun:
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
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Bone as a noun:
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
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Bone as a noun:
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
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Bone as a noun (figurative):
The framework of anything.
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Bone as a noun:
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Examples:
"color paneE4D4BA"
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Bone as a noun (US, informal):
A dollar.
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Bone as a noun (American football, informal):
The wishbone formation.
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Bone as a noun (slang):
An erect penis; a boner.
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Bone as a noun (slang, mostly, plural):
A domino or dice.
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Bone as an adjective:
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
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Bone as a verb:
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
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Bone as a verb:
To fertilize with bone.
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Bone as a verb:
To put whalebone into.
Examples:
"to bone stays"
"rfquotek Ash"
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Bone as a verb (civil engineering):
To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
Examples:
"[[boning rod]]"
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Bone as a verb (vulgar, slang, usually of a man):
To have sexual intercourse with.
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Bone as a verb (Australia, dated, in [[Aboriginal]] culture):
To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
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Bone as a verb (usually with "up"):
To study.
Examples:
"[[bone up]]"
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Bone as a verb:
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
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Bone as a verb (transitive, slang):
To apprehend, steal.
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Bone as a verb (carpentry, masonry, surveying):
To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Bone as a noun (slang):
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Buck as a noun:
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.
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Buck as a noun (US):
An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
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Buck as a noun:
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
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Buck as a noun (British, obsolete):
A fop or dandy.
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Buck as a noun (US, dated, derogatory):
A black or Native American man.
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Buck as a noun (US, Australia, NZ, Canada, informal):
A dollar (one hundred cents).
Examples:
"Can I borrow five bucks?"
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Buck as a noun (South Africa, informal):
A rand (currency unit).
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Buck as a noun (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal):
Money
Examples:
"Corporations will do anything to make a buck."
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Buck as a noun (US, slang):
One hundred.
Examples:
"The police caught me driving a buck forty on the freeway."
"That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter."
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Buck as a noun (dated):
An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
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Buck as a noun (US, in certain metaphors or phrases):
Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
Examples:
"[[pass the buck]]''; ''[[the buck stops here]]"
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Buck as a noun (UK, dialect):
The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
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Buck as a noun (finance):
One million dollars.
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Buck as a noun (informal):
A euro.
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Buck as a noun:
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
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Buck as a noun:
A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See [http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/additional-how-to/1009sr-making-a-wood-buck/ Street Rodder "Making a Wood Buck"].
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Buck as a noun (AAVE, dated, dance):
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Buck as a noun:
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Buck as a verb (intransitive):
To copulate, as bucks and does.
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Buck as a verb (intransitive):
To bend; buckle.
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Buck as a verb (intransitive, of a horse, _, or similar saddle or pack animal):
To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
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Buck as a verb (transitive, of a horse, _, or similar saddle or pack animal):
To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
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Buck as a verb (transitive, military):
To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
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Buck as a verb (intransitive, by extension):
To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
Examples:
"The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution."
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Buck as a verb (intransitive, by extension):
To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
Examples:
"The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely."
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Buck as a verb (transitive, by extension):
To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
Examples:
"The plane bucked a strong headwind."
"Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees."
"John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well."
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Buck as a verb (riveting):
To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.
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Buck as a verb (forestry):
To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
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Buck as a verb (electronics):
To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter
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Buck as a noun (Scotland):
The beech tree.
Examples:
"rfquotek Johnson"
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Buck as a noun:
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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Buck as a noun:
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
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Buck as a verb:
To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
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Buck as a verb:
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
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Buck as a verb (mining):
To break up or pulverize, as ores.
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