Beetroot vs Eternity - What's the difference?
beetroot | eternity |
A normally deep red coloured cultivar of the beet. A root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.
(uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time.
* 1829', , ''Sermon LVIII: On the '''Eternity of God'', in ''Sermons on Several Occasions , Volume 2, 10th edition,
* 1886 , , Systematic Theology: a Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use of Theological Students ,
* 2000 , , Human Nature in It's Fourfold State ,
(uncountable, philosophy) Existence outside of time.
* 1879 , (editor) ''Journal of Discourses , Volume 21,
(countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.
(metaphysical) The remainder of time that elapses after death.
(informal, hyperbole) A comparatively long time.
As nouns the difference between beetroot and eternity
is that beetroot is a normally deep red coloured cultivar of the beet a root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating while eternity is (uncountable) existence without end, infinite time.beetroot
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(wikipedia beetroot)Alternative forms
* beet rootNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* red beet * table beetDerived terms
* red as a beetrootAnagrams
*eternity
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* (archaic) * (obsolete)Noun
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- Eternity' has generally been considered as divisible into two parts; which have been termed, '''eternity''' ''a parte ante'', and '''eternity''' ''a parte post'': that is, in plain English, that '''eternity''' which is past, and that ' eternity which is to come.
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- This theory regards creation as an act of God in eternity past.
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- Those who like not the company of the saints on earth will get none of it in eternity'; but, as godless company is their delight now, they will afterwards get enough of it, when they have ' eternity to pass in the roaring and blaspheming society of devils and reprobates in hell.
- We sometimes speak of eternity' in contradistinction to time; and often say, "through time and into '''eternity''';" and again "from '''eternity''' to '''eternity'''," which is simply another form of expressing the same idea, and "pass through time into '''eternity'''." in other words, time is a short period allotted to man in his probationary state—and we use the word time in contradistinction to the word ' eternity , merely for the accommodation of man in his finite sphere, that we may comprehend and learn to measure periods.
- It's been an eternity since we last saw each other.
