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Gull vs Beach - What's the difference?

gull | beach |

As nouns the difference between gull and beach

is that gull is a seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae while beach is the shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.

As verbs the difference between gull and beach

is that gull is to deceive or cheat while beach is to run (something) aground on a beach.

As a proper noun Beach is

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gull

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gulle, ultimately from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
    • Synonyms
    * (seabird) mew, seagull

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from an obsolete term

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
  • * 1599 ,
    • BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull , but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
  • One easily cheated; a dupe.
    • Synonyms
    * (dupe) See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deceive or cheat.
  • * Dryden
    • The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
  • * Coleridge
    • I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165
    • speak your curses out
    Against me, who would sooner crush and grind
    A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress
    An innocent lady, gull an Emperor
  • (US, slang) To mislead.
  • (US, slang) To trick and defraud.
    • Derived terms
    * gullible * gullibility

    References

    External links

    * (wikipedia) * (Larus) ----

    beach

    English

    (wikipedia beach)

    Noun

    (es)
  • The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • (rft-sense) A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
  • *
  • The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.

    • Synonyms

    * * (horizontal strip of land adjoining water) sand, strand, backshore

    Derived terms

    {{der3, beach break , beach volleyball , beachball , beachberry , beachboy , beachcast , beachcomber , beachfront , beach flea , beachgrass , beachline , beach wagon}}

    Verb

    (es)
  • To run (something) aground on a beach.

    • Synonyms

    * strand

    Derived terms

    * unbeached