Goatee vs. Beard — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Goatee and Beard
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Definitions
Goatee
A goatee is a style of facial hair incorporating hair on a man's chin but not his cheeks. The exact nature of the style has varied according to time and culture.
Beard
A beard is the hair that grows on the jaw, chin, upper lip, lower lip, cheeks, and neck of humans and some non-human animals. In humans, usually pubescent or adult males are able to grow beards.
Goatee
A small chin beard, especially one connected to a mustache or trimmed into a point.
Beard
A growth of hair on the chin, cheeks, and throat of a person, especially a man.
Goatee
A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.
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Beard
A tuft or growth of hairs, bristles, or other hairlike threads on a plant or animal.
Goatee
A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.
Beard
One who serves to divert suspicion or attention from another, especially a person of the opposite sex who accompanies a gay man or lesbian to give the impression of heterosexuality.
Goatee
A small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard
Beard
(Printing)The raised slope on a piece of type between the shoulder or counter and the face.Also called neck.
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Beard
To furnish with a beard.
Beard
To confront boldly.
Beard
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
Beard
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
Beard
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
Beard
The byssus of certain shellfish.
Beard
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
Beard
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
Beard
(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
The beard of grain
Beard
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
Beard
The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
Beard
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
Beard
That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
Beard
A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
Beard
To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
Beard
(transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Beard
(transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
Beard
(transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
Beard
Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
Beard
Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
Beard
The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
Beard
The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
Beard
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
Beard
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
Beard
That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
Beard
That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
Beard
An imposition; a trick.
Beard
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
Beard
To oppose to the face; to set at defiance.
No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
Beard
To deprive of the gills; - used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
Beard
The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
Beard
A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
Beard
A person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
Beard
Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
Beard
Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
Beard
Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin;
Houses bearded the top of the heights