Airport vs Harbour - What's the difference?
airport | harbour |
An airfield (a place where airplanes can take off and land), including one or more runways and one or more passenger terminals.
(en noun) (British, Canada)
(obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
A place of shelter or refuge.
(obsolete) A house of the zodiac.
* Late 14th century: To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, Canterbury Tales
A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload.
(astrology) The mansion of a heavenly body.
A mixing box for materials in glass-working.
To provide shelter or refuge for.
* Bishop Burnet
* Rowe
To accept, as with a belief.
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As nouns the difference between airport and harbour
is that airport is an airfield (a place where airplanes can take off and land), including one or more runways and one or more passenger terminals while harbour is shelter, refuge.As a verb harbour is
to provide shelter or refuge for.airport
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Noun
(wikipedia airport) (en noun)harbour
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Alternative forms
* herberwe (obsolete) * herborough (obsolete) * harbor (now US)Noun
(wikipedia harbour)- The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.
- The city has an excellent natural harbour .
Derived terms
* harbourage * harbourmaster * unharbouredVerb
(en verb)- The docks, which once harboured''' tall ships, now '''harbour only petty thieves.
- The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
- Let not your gentle breast harbour one thought of outrage.
- That scientist harbours the belief that God created humans.
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