Node vs. Sprout: What's the Difference?

Node and Sprout Definitions
Node
A knob, knot, protuberance, or swelling.
Sprout
To begin to grow; give off shoots or buds.
Node
(Medicine) A small, well-defined mass of tissue that is either normal or pathological, as a lymph node or a node at an arthritic joint.
Sprout
To emerge and develop rapidly
Businesses that sprouted along the highway.
Node
A point or area where two lines, paths, or parts intersect or branch off
"The nodes, or branching points, are usually demarcated by sets of one or more new, evolutionary characters that typify all taxa" (Pat Shipley).
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Sprout
To allow or cause to come forth and grow
He sprouted a mustache.
Node
A focal point or a point of interaction
"Inside the hospital, she became a node of gossip, despite being unable to communicate in the usual way" (Oliver Sacks).
Sprout
Young plant growth, such as a bud or shoot.
Node
(Botany) The point on a stem where a leaf is attached or has been attached; a joint.
Sprout
Something resembling or suggestive of a sprout, as in rapid growth
"a tall blond sprout of a boy" (Anne Tyler).
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Node
See knot1.
Sprout
The young shoots of plants such as alfalfa and soybean, usually eaten raw.
Node
(Physics) A point or region of virtually zero amplitude in a wave or periodic system.
Sprout
Brussels sprouts.
Node
(Mathematics) The point at which a continuous curve crosses itself.
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Sprout
A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
Node
(Computers) A terminal in a computer network.
Sprout
A child.
Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!
Node
Either of two diametrically opposite points at which the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic.
Sprout
A Brussels sprout.
In our family we eat sprouts but once a year, on Christmas.
Node
Either of two points at which the orbit of a satellite intersects the orbital plane of a planet.
Sprout
A bean sprout.
Node
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
Sprout
An edible germinated seed.
Node
(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 ☋.
Sprout
To grow from seed; to germinate.
The crocuses should be sprouting after 2 months, provided they're well tended.
Node
(botany) A leaf node.
Sprout
(transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.
I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad.
Node
(networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
Sprout
(transitive) To deprive of sprouts.
To sprout potatoes
Node
(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
Sprout
(intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
Node
(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
Sprout
To emerge haphazardly from a surface.
Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin.
Node
(geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
Sprout
To emerge or appear haphazardly
A lot of coffee shops have sprouted up in this neighbourhood since the block of flats was put up.
Node
(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
Sprout
To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
Node
(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.
Sprout
To shoot into ramifications.
Node
(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
Sprout
To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
Node
(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
Sprout
To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
Node
(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.
Sprout
The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
Node
(computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
Sprout
Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
Node
(electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
Sprout
Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
Node
A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
Sprout
A newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
Node
One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.
Sprout
Produce buds, branches, or germinate;
The potatoes sprouted
Node
A special point in a graph or diagram which is attached to other points by links. It is often labeled and represented graphically as a box or circle. A node may represent any object which is related to other objects in a conceptual structure that can be represented as a graph, the relations being represented as links between the nodes.
Sprout
Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;
The plant sprouted early this year
Node
A small mass of tissue differing from other tissue in its immediate vicinity; as, a lymph node.
Node
A connecting point at which several lines come together
Node
Any thickened enlargement
Node
(physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
Node
(astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
Node
The source of lymph and lymphocytes
Node
Any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
Node
(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network