Main Difference
The main difference between Sap and Oracle is that the Sap is a plant secretion having many valued properties and Oracle is a in classical antiquity, person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future
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Sap
Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.
Sap is distinct from latex, resin, or cell sap; it is a separate substance, separately produced, and with different components and functions.Insect honeydew is called sap, particularly when it falls from trees, but is only the remains of eaten sap and other plant parts.
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Oracle
An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination.
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Sap (noun)
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
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Sap (noun)
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
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Sap (noun)
Any juice.
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Sap (noun)
Vitality.
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Sap (noun)
a naive person; a simpleton
“milksop|saphead”
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Sap (noun)
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
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Sap (noun)
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
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Sap (verb)
To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
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Sap (verb)
To exhaust the vitality of.
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Sap (verb)
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
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Sap (verb)
To wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
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Sap (verb)
To pierce with saps.
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Sap (verb)
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
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Sap (verb)
To gradually weaken.
“to sap one’s conscience”
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Sap (verb)
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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Oracle (noun)
A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.
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Oracle (noun)
A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecy or advice.
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Oracle (noun)
A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given.
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Oracle (noun)
A person considered to be a source of wisdom.
“a literary oracle”
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Oracle (noun)
A wise sentence or decision of great authority.
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Oracle (noun)
One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.
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Oracle (noun)
A theoretical entity capable of answering some collection of questions.
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Oracle (noun)
The sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.
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Oracle (verb)
To utter oracles or prophecies.
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Oracle (noun)
a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.
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Oracle (noun)
a place at which divine advice or prophecy was sought.
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Oracle (noun)
a person or thing regarded as an infallible authority on something
“he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office’s oracle on Africa”
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Oracle (noun)
a response or message given by an oracle, especially an ambiguous one.