Avalanche vs Earthquake - What's the difference?
avalanche | earthquake |
A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.
Anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity (like a barrage, blitz, etc).
To descend like an avalanche.
To come down upon; to overwhelm.
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
As nouns the difference between avalanche and earthquake
is that avalanche is a large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.As a verb avalanche
is to descend like an avalanche.avalanche
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* snowslide, snowslipVerb
(avalanch)- The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.
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English
(wikipedia earthquake)Noun
(en noun)- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.