Apartment vs Falt - What's the difference?
apartment | falt |
A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.
(archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
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(obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
* 1883 April 23, Slawson ''v.'' Grand Street R. Co. , 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 205:
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As nouns the difference between apartment and falt
is that apartment is apartment while falt is a field, a (physical) area, an open space in a landscape (for farming or battle).apartment
English
(wikipedia apartment)Noun
(en noun)- apartment dwellers
- By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
- The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments', the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper '''apartment'''. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower ' apartment , which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....
Synonyms
* (domicile occupying part of a building) flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominiumDerived terms
* apartment buildingSee also
* tenementfalt
English
Noun
(en noun)- ...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt , which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn.