Bun vs. Ban — What's the Difference?

A bun is a small, sometimes sweet, bread-based item or roll. Though they come in many shapes and sizes, they are most commonly hand-sized or smaller, with a round top and flat bottom.

To prohibit (an action) or forbid the use of (something), especially by official decree

A small cake, typically containing dried fruit

To refuse to allow (someone) to do something, go somewhere, or be a participant; exclude

A hairstyle in which the hair is drawn back into a tight coil at the back of the head.

South African Under the former system of apartheid, to deprive (a person suspected of illegal activity) of the right of free movement and association with others.

A person's buttocks.

(Archaic) To curse.

An unsweetened round or oblong roll, used especially to hold a hamburger patty or a hot dog.

A prohibition imposed by law or official decree

A small sweetened roll, often spiced or containing dried fruit.

An excommunication or condemnation by church officials.

A tight roll of hair worn at the back or the top of the head.

Censure, condemnation, or disapproval expressed especially by public opinion.

A drunken spree.

A summons to arms in feudal times.

A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.

(Archaic) A curse; an imprecation.

A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

A unit of currency equal to 1/100 of the primary unit of currency in Romania and Moldova.

A cupcake.

To summon; to call out.

A drunken spree.

(transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.

(Internet slang) A newbie.

(transitive) To curse; to execrate.

A buttock.

(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.

(slang) The vagina.

(ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

A rabbit.

Prohibition.

A squirrel.

A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.

The scut or tail of a hare.

The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.

A dry stalk.

(obsolete) A curse or anathema.

Marijuana cigarette, joint

A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3{{nbsp}}cm.

A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.

(transitive) To form (the hair) into a bun.

A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.

To smoke cannabis.

A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

To shoot.

A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

Any of a variety of slightly sweetened or plain raised cakes or bisquits, often having a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust; as, a hot cross bun.

A kind of fine muslin, made in the East Indies from the fiber of the banana leaf stalks.

A type of coiffure in which the hair is gathered into a coil or knot at the top of the head.

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

The buttocks.

A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

Same as blood urea nitrogen; the concentration of nitrogen in blood present in the form of urea; - used as a measure of kidney function.

Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).

Small rounded bread either plain or sweet

An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.

A curse or anathema.

A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

To curse; to invoke evil upon.

To forbid; to interdict.

To curse; to swear.

A decree that prohibits something

100 bani equal 1 leu

100 bani equal 1 leu

An official prohibition or edict against something

A bachelor's degree in nursing

Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure;

Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

Expel from a community or group