Node vs. Sprout: What's the Difference?

A knob, knot, protuberance, or swelling.

To begin to grow; give off shoots or buds.

(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.

To emerge and develop rapidly

A point or area where two lines, paths, or parts intersect or branch off

To allow or cause to come forth and grow

A focal point or a point of interaction

Young plant growth, such as a bud or shoot.

(Botany) The point on a stem where a leaf is attached or has been attached; a joint.

Something resembling or suggestive of a sprout, as in rapid growth

See knot1.

The young shoots of plants such as alfalfa and soybean, usually eaten raw.

(Physics) A point or region of virtually zero amplitude in a wave or periodic system.

Brussels sprouts.

(Mathematics) The point at which a continuous curve crosses itself.

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

(Computers) A terminal in a computer network.

A child.

Either of two diametrically opposite points at which the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic.

A Brussels sprout.

Either of two points at which the orbit of a satellite intersects the orbital plane of a planet.

A bean sprout.

A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.

An edible germinated seed.

(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 ☋.

To grow from seed; to germinate.

(botany) A leaf node.

(transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.

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

(transitive) To deprive of sprouts.

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

(intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.

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

To emerge haphazardly from a surface.

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

To emerge or appear haphazardly

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

To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.

(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.

To shoot into ramifications.

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

To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.

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

To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.

(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.

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.

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

Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.

(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).

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

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

A newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)

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.

Produce buds, branches, or germinate;

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.

Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;

A small mass of tissue differing from other tissue in its immediate vicinity; as, a lymph node.

A connecting point at which several lines come together

Any thickened enlargement

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

(astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane

The source of lymph and lymphocytes

Any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part

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