Ablative vs Allative - What's the difference?
ablative | allative |
(grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
(obsolete) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
* , 1622The Works of Joseph Hall: Sermons (http://books.google.com/books?id=6KA9AAAAYAAJ), page 123
(engineering, nautical) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling. .
(medical) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
(geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
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(label) of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards a place
In grammar terms the difference between ablative and allative
is that ablative is the ablative case while allative is the allative case, or a word in that case.ablative
English
(wikipedia ablative)Adjective
(-)- Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.