Goatee vs. Beard — What's the Difference?

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.

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.

A small chin beard, especially one connected to a mustache or trimmed into a point.

A growth of hair on the chin, cheeks, and throat of a person, especially a man.

A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.

A tuft or growth of hairs, bristles, or other hairlike threads on a plant or animal.

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.

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.

A small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard

(Printing)The raised slope on a piece of type between the shoulder or counter and the face.Also called neck.

To furnish with a beard.

To confront boldly.

Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.

The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.

The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

The byssus of certain shellfish.

The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.

In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.

(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.

A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.

That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.

That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.

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.

To grow hair on the chin and jaw.

(transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

(transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

(transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.

Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.

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.

The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.

Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.

A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.

That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.

An imposition; a trick.

To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

To oppose to the face; to set at defiance.

To deprive of the gills; - used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses

A person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)

Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals

Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface

Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin;