Sideburn vs. Beard — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sideburn and Beard
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Sideburn
The unwanted rapid burning down one side of a cigarette that has been ineptly rolled.
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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.
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Sideburn
Beard grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)
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Beard
A growth of hair on the chin, cheeks, and throat of a person, especially a man.
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Beard
A tuft or growth of hairs, bristles, or other hairlike threads on a plant or animal.
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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.
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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.
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Beard
To confront boldly.
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Beard
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
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Beard
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
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Beard
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
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Beard
The byssus of certain shellfish.
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Beard
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
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Beard
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
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Beard
(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
The beard of grain
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Beard
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
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Beard
The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
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Beard
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
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Beard
That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
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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.
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Beard
To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
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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.
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Beard
(transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
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Beard
(transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
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Beard
Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
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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.
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Beard
The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
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Beard
The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
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Beard
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
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Beard
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
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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.
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Beard
That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
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Beard
An imposition; a trick.
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Beard
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
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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.
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Beard
To deprive of the gills; - used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
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Beard
The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
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Beard
A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
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Beard
A person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
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Beard
Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
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Beard
Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
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Beard
Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin;
Houses bearded the top of the heights
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