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Nave vs Apse - What's the difference?

nave | apse |

In architecture terms the difference between nave and apse

is that nave is the middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances while apse is a semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.

nave

English

Etymology 1

Ultimately from (etyl) , via a Romance source.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) nafu, from (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hub of a wheel.
  • * --William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act II, Scene 2
  • 'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,
    In general synod take away her power;
    Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
    And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven...
  • (obsolete) The navel.
  • * William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene 1:
  • Till he faced the slave;/Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,/And fix'd his head upon our battlements

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    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
  • The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
  • A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
  • (astronomy, obsolete) The nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit. More usually called an apsis.
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) An aspen tree.
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