Node vs. Sprout

Node vs. Sprout — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Node and Sprout

Nodenoun

A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.

Sproutnoun

A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.

Nodenoun

(astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.

Sproutnoun

A child.

Nodenoun

(botany) A leaf node.

Sproutnoun

A Brussels sprout.

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Nodenoun

(networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.

Sproutnoun

A bean sprout.

Nodenoun

(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.

Sproutnoun

An edible germinated seed.

Nodenoun

(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.

Sproutverb

(gardening) To grow from seed; to germinate.

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Nodenoun

(geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.

Sproutverb

To cause to grow from a seed.

I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad.

Nodenoun

(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.

Sproutverb

To deprive of sprouts.

to sprout potatoes

Nodenoun

(medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.

Sproutverb

To emerge from the ground as sprouts.

Nodenoun

(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.

Sproutverb

To emerge haphazardly from a surface.

Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin.

Nodenoun

(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.

Sproutnoun

any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud

Nodenoun

(technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.

Sproutnoun

a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)

Nodenoun

(computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

Sproutverb

produce buds, branches, or germinate;

the potatoes sprouted

Nodenoun

a connecting point at which several lines come together

Sproutverb

put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;

the plant sprouted early this year

Nodenoun

any thickened enlargement

Nodenoun

(physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system

Nodenoun

(astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane

Nodenoun

the source of lymph and lymphocytes

Nodenoun

any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part

Nodenoun

(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network