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Adobe vs Terracotta - What's the difference?

adobe | terracotta |

As nouns the difference between adobe and terracotta

is that adobe is an unburnt brick dried in the sun while terracotta is a hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction.

As an adjective terracotta is

of the colour of terracotta.

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 ----

    terracotta

    English

    Alternative forms

    * terra cotta

    Noun

    (terra cotta) (en-noun)
  • a hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction

    • Related terms

    * terra * terrace * terrain * terrene * terrier * territorial * territory * terrestrial

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of the colour of .
  • * 1892 June 18, F. W. B., Why Paint a Greenhouse White?'', in ''The Garden , volume 41, page 569:
    • A dull red or terracotta brown is far better, and sets off the foliage of Palms or Ferns to greater advantage.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}} ----