honeycomb vs spoil

honeycomb

verb
  • To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern. 

noun
  • A space-filling packing of polytopes in 3- or higher-dimensional space. 

  • Any structure resembling a honeycomb. 

  • A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter. 

  • Voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles. 

  • Manufactured material used to manufacture light, stiff structural components using a sandwich design. 

  • The texture of the surface of a solar cell, intended to increase its surface area and capture more sunlight. 

spoil

verb
  • To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time. 

  • To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. 

  • To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it. 

  • Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. 

  • To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use. 

  • To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler. 

noun
  • Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else. 

  • Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. 

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