Bog vs Forest - What's the difference?
bog | forest |
An expanse of marshland.
(Ireland, British, New Zealand, coarse, slang) A toilet.
(US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
(informal) To become (figuratively or literally) mired or stuck.
(transitive, British, informal) To make a mess of something.
To go away.
A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Any dense collection or amount.
(historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
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, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 (graph theory) A disjoint union of trees.
As nouns the difference between bog and forest
is that bog is while forest is a dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area larger than woods.As a verb forest is
to cover an area with trees.bog
English
(wikipedia bog)Etymology 1
(etyl) and (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (expanse of marshland) marsh, moor, swamp * shithouse (taboo slang''), dunny (''Australia )Derived terms
* bog bilberry * bog brush * bog iron * bog orchid * bog paper * bog roll * bog standardVerb
Derived terms
* bog down * bog upEtymology 2
by shortening and euphemistic alteration from (bugger)Verb
Derived terms
* bog offAnagrams
* ----forest
English
(wikipedia forest)Noun
(en noun)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
- forest of criticism.
citation, passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest' emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the ' forest , dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}