Cardinal vs. Redbird — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cardinal and Redbird
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Cardinal
Of foremost importance; paramount
A cardinal rule.
Cardinal sins.
Redbird
Any of various birds with red plumage, as the cardinal or scarlet tanager.
Cardinal
Dark to deep or vivid red.
Redbird
(North America) Any of several unrelated American songbirds having red plumage, especially the tanager or cardinal.
Cardinal
Abbr. Card. Roman Catholic Church A high church official, ranking just below the pope, who has been appointed by a pope to membership in the College of Cardinals.
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Redbird
(slang) A capsule of secobarbital.
Cardinal
A dark to deep or vivid red.
Redbird
Any of various red cars formerly used in the New York City subway system; or a train of such cars.
Cardinal
A North American bird (Cardinalis cardinalis) having a crested head, a short thick bill, and bright red plumage in the male.
Redbird
The cardinal bird.
Cardinal
A short hooded cloak, originally of scarlet cloth, worn by women in the 1700s.
Redbird
The male is bright red with black wings and tail
Cardinal
A cardinal number.
Redbird
Crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
Cardinal
Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
A cardinal rule
Cardinal
(nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
A cardinal mark
Cardinal
Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
Cardinal
Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
Cardinal
(Roman Catholic) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
Cardinal
Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
Cardinal
Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
Cardinal
(color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. cardinal red}}
Cardinal
(math) dot=, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). Cardinal_number.}}
Cardinal
(grammar) dot=, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
Cardinal
(Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
Cardinal
(Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
Cardinal
A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
Cardinal
(obsolete) Mulled red wine.
Cardinal
Of fundamental importance; preëminent; superior; chief; principal.
The cardinal intersections of the zodiac.
Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.
But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
Cardinal
One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved.
Cardinal
A woman's short cloak with a hood.
Where's your cardinal! Make haste.
Cardinal
Mulled red wine.
Cardinal
The cardinal bird, also called the northern cardinal.
Cardinal
(Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
Cardinal
The number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
Cardinal
A variable color averaging a vivid red
Cardinal
Crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
Cardinal
Serving as an essential component;
A cardinal rule
The central cause of the problem
An example that was fundamental to the argument
Computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
Cardinal
Being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order;
Cardinal numbers
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