Camp vs Motel - What's the difference?
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(label) Conflict; battle.
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
A single hut or shelter.
The company or body of persons encamped.
* Macaulay
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
(uncommon) campus
(informal) A summer camp.
(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; called also burrow and pie.
(UK, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
To wrangle; argue.
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
To set up a camp.
To afford rest or lodging for.
* Shakespeare
(video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.
of or related to a camp
An affected]], [[exaggerate, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
(of a, man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
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A lodging establishment typically featuring a series of rooms whose entrance is immediately adjacent to a parking lot, as might facilitate easy access to one's automobile during an overnight stay, particularly located near a major highway.
Of architecture, interior design, etc, in the style of a motel; identical and anonymous.
Any of several architectural or interior design styles associated with motels, such as "identicalness''", "''anonymity ", or any other perceived attribute of motels, particularly as differentiated from hotels .
Characterized by an anonymous, temporary nature, as motel sex .
Property owned'' by a motel, as "''motel towel''", "''motel ashtray ", possibly imprinted or embroidered with the name of the establishment, frequently appropriated by tourists as a souvenir.
As an initialism camp
is .As a noun motel is
motel.camp
English
(wikipedia camp)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
(en noun)- a hunter's camp
- The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
- (Halliwell)
Verb
(en verb)- We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
- Had our great palace the capacity / To camp this host, we all would sup together.
- The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
- Go and camp the flag for the win.
Derived terms
* (l)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* camper * campness * campfire * camp site, campsite * campstead, campsteading * campground * campestral * concentration camp * death camp * extermination camp * fat camp * spawn camping * summer campEtymology 2
Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure.listed in the Oxford English Dictionary'', second edition (1989) Suggested origins include the 17th century French word ''camper'', 'to put oneself in a pose',Douglas Harper,"camp (adj.)"] in: ''Etymonline.com - Online Etymology Dictionary'', 2001ffan assumed dialectal English word ''camp'' or ''kemp'' meaning 'rough' or 'uncouth' and a derivation from ''camp'' (n.)Micheal Quinion, [http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cam1.htm "Camp" in: ''World Wide Words , 2003