Bud vs. Nickname — What's the Difference?

In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem. Once formed, a bud may remain for some time in a dormant condition, or it may form a shoot immediately.

A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing. Commonly used to express affection, a form of endearment and sometimes amusement, it can also be used to express defamation of character, particularly by school bullies.

A small protuberance on a stem or branch, sometimes enclosed in protective scales and containing an undeveloped leaf, flower, or leafy shoot.

A descriptive name added to or replacing the actual name of a person, place, or thing.

The stage or condition of having buds

A familiar or shortened form of a proper name.

Flowers from a female cannabis plant, especially after being harvested and prepared for smoking or other use

To give a nickname to.

A single flower of a cannabis plant, especially a female flower

(Archaic) To call by an incorrect name; misname.

An asexual reproductive structure, as in yeast or a hydra, that consists of an outgrowth capable of developing into a new individual.

A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.

A small, rounded organic part, such as a taste bud, that resembles a plant bud.

A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.

One that is not yet fully developed

(transitive) To give a nickname to (a person or thing).

An earbud.

A name given in affectionate familiarity, sportive familiarity, contempt, or derision; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation; as, Nicholas's nickname is Nick.

Friend; chum. Used as a form of familiar address, especially for a man or boy

To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.

To put forth or produce buds

A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name);

To develop or grow from or as if from a bud

A descriptive name for a place or thing;

To be in an undeveloped stage or condition.

Give a nickname to

To reproduce asexually by forming a bud.

To cause to put forth buds.

To graft a bud onto (a plant).

A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

(figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.

A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

A pretty young girl.

Buddy, friend.

Used to address a male

(intransitive) To form buds.

(intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.

(intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

(intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

(transitive) To put forth as a bud.

(transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.

To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.

A partially opened flower

A swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

Develop buds;

Start to grow or develop;