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Building vs Sheepcote - What's the difference?

building | sheepcote |

As nouns the difference between building and sheepcote

is that building is (uncountable) the act or process of building while sheepcote is (archaic) a small building for sheltering sheep.

As a verb building

is .

building

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) The act or process of building.
  • A closed structure with walls and a roof.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
    Synonyms
    * (act or process of building) construction * (closed structure with walls and a roof) edifice * See also
    Derived terms
    * apartment building * * building blocks * building permit * building society * building trade * office building * outbuilding * shipbuilding * bodybuilding * main building

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    See (build)

    Verb

    (head)

    • sheepcote

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A small building for sheltering sheep.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1594, author=Richard Barnfield, title=The Affectionate Shepherd, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=If thou wilt come and dwell with me at home, My sheepcote shall be strowed with new greene rushes: Weele haunt the trembling prickets as they rome About the fields, along the hauthorne bushes; I have a pie-bald curre to hunt the hare, So we will live with daintie forrest fare. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1845, author=Mrs. Thomson, title=Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Each officer was at his post, nor could they much complain whilst their General sat on straw, in a sheepcote , at the foot of the hill, called Sherriff Muir, which overlooks Dumblane, on the right of his army. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Alexander Maclaren, title=The Life of David, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Besides this, he acquired in the sheepcote lessons which he practised on the throne, that rule means service, and that the shepherd of men holds his office in order that he may protect and guide. }}

    See also

    * sheepfold