Spaghetti vs. Vermicelli — What's the Difference?

Spaghetti (Italian: [spaˈɡetti]) is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta. It is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine.

Vermicelli (Italian: [vermiˈtʃɛlli]; lit. 'little worms', , also UK: , ) is a traditional type of pasta round in section similar to spaghetti. In English-speaking regions it is usually thinner than spaghetti, while in Italy it is typically thicker.The term vermicelli is also used to describe various types of thin noodles from Asia.

Pasta made in solid strings, between macaroni and vermicelli in thickness.

Pasta in the form of long slender threads.

Pasta in long, often thick strands.

Shreds of chocolate used to decorate cakes or other sweet foods.

(Electricity) A slender tube of insulating material that covers bare wire.

Pasta in long, very thin strands.

A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

Long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner.

(by extension) A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.

Any type of long, thin noodles, as in rice vermicelli.

(informal) Any type of pasta.

(UK) Chocolate sprinkles.

(informal) Electrical insulating tubing.

The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.

(informal) Anything tangled or confusing.

Pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti

(countable) A spaghetti western.

Spaghetti code.

To become, or appear to become longer and thinner.

To stretch to become longer and thinner.

A variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter.

Pasta in the form of long strings