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Ablative vs Allative - What's the difference?

ablative | allative |

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

Adjective

(-)
  • (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
  • Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) The ablative case.
  • An ablative material.
  • Derived terms

    * ablative absolute

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    allative

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (label) of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards a place
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) the allative case, or a word in that case.