Cade vs Cave - What's the difference?
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transferred from the surname.
* 1936 , Gone With the Wind , Read Books 2008, ISBN 1443719587, page 26:
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground, or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
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, title= A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
* {{quote-book, 1918, Edward Alfred Steiner, Uncle Joe's Lincoln
, passage=Every boy at one time or another has dug a cave ; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves,
A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
* {{quote-book, 1986, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Radiation Alarms and Access Control Systems, page=45
, passage=These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave )
(drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
* {{quote-book, 1951, James Deans Cumming, Diamond Drill Handbook, page=134
, passage=
(mining) A collapse or cave-in.
* {{quote-book, 1885, (Angelo Heilprin), Town Geology: The Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks, page=79
, passage=The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side.}}
The vagina.
* {{quote-book, 1976, (Chester Himes), My Life of Absurdity, page=59
, passage=Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring.}}
A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
* {{quote-book, 1964, Leon D. Epstein, British Politics in the Suez Crisis, page=125
, passage=Without joining the cave , Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957.}}
(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
* Francis Bacon
To surrender.
To collapse.
To hollow out or undermine.
To engage in the recreational exploration of caves; to spelunk.
(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
(mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
* {{quote-book, 1999, Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770, page=319
, passage=As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves to caving for scraps of ore. }}
(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
As a pronoun cade
is where is?.As a proper noun cave is
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Alternative forms
* rare: Caide, Kade, KaydeProper noun
(en proper noun)- Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;
- They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.
Anagrams
* * *cave
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- the cave of the ear
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* caveman * cave painting * cavewomanVerb
(cav)- He caved under pressure.
- First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave , then we ran.
- The levee has been severely caved by the river current.
- I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.
- Let's go caving this weekend.
- The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.
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