Acre vs Nacre - What's the difference?
acre | nacre |
(label) A field.
A unit of surface area (symbol'' a. ''or ac.), originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day; later defined as an area 1 chain (22 yd) by 1 furlong (220 yd), or 4,840 square yards. Equivalent to about 4,046.86 square metres.
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, chapter=2 A large amount (of area).
(obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.
*, II.12:
A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.
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In obsolete terms the difference between acre and nacre
is that acre is a field while nacre is a shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.As a proper noun Acre
is a port city in northern Israel.acre
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(wikipedia acre)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
Derived terms
* acre foot * God's acreSee also
* international acre * US survey acre * *Anagrams
* * ----nacre
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The shell-fish called a Nacre , liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish.
