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Abode vs Adobe - What's the difference?

abode | adobe |

Adobe is a anagram of abode.



As nouns the difference between abode and adobe

is that abode is act of waiting; delay while adobe is an unburnt brick dried in the sun.

As a verb abode

is past tense of abide.

abode

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
    • Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
  • (obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  • * 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
    • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • * (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
    • He waxeth at your abode here.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
    • of no fixed abode .
  • * (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
    • Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abide)

    • Etymology 2

    * From an alteration with bode and (etyl) *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
  • * High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -

    • Verb

    (abod)
  • (obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To be ominous.
    • Derived terms
    * abodement * aboding

    See also

    * dwelling

    References

    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English terms with multiple etymologies

    adobe

    English

    (wikipedia adobe)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
    • Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
    • Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
    • “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
  • * (rfdate) Star Wars script
    • The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
  • * 26 May 2003 , Roger Angell, in The New Yorker ,
    • The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
  • A house made of adobe brick.
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever

    Synonyms

    * mudbrick (definition 1)

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    * adobe, Online Etymology Dictionary English terms derived from Arabic English terms derived from Spanish ----