The difference between Bone and Talus

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 talus means the bone of the ankle.


Bone is also verb with the meaning: to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

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 Talus

  1. Bone as a noun (uncountable):

    A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

  2. Bone as a noun (countable):

    Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

  3. Bone as a noun:

    A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

  4. Bone as a noun:

    A bonefish

  5. Bone as a noun:

    One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

  6. 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.

  7. Bone as a noun:

    Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

  8. Bone as a noun (figurative):

    The framework of anything.

  9. Bone as a noun:

    An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

    Examples:

    "color paneE4D4BA"

  10. Bone as a noun (US, informal):

    A dollar.

  11. Bone as a noun (American football, informal):

    The wishbone formation.

  12. Bone as a noun (slang):

    An erect penis; a boner.

  13. Bone as a noun (slang, mostly, plural):

    A domino or dice.

  1. Bone as an adjective:

    Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

  1. Bone as a verb:

    To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

  2. Bone as a verb:

    To fertilize with bone.

  3. Bone as a verb:

    To put whalebone into.

    Examples:

    "to bone stays"

    "rfquotek Ash"

  4. Bone as a verb (civil engineering):

    To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

    Examples:

    "[[boning rod]]"

  5. Bone as a verb (vulgar, slang, usually of a man):

    To have sexual intercourse with.

  6. 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.

  7. Bone as a verb (usually with "up"):

    To study.

    Examples:

    "[[bone up]]"

  8. Bone as a verb:

    To polish boots to a shiny finish.

  1. Bone as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To apprehend, steal.

  1. 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"

  1. Bone as a noun (slang):

  1. Talus as a noun (anatomy):

    The bone of the ankle.

  1. Talus as a noun (geology):

    A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.

  2. Talus as a noun (architecture):

    The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.