Carriage vs Aspect - What's the difference?
carriage | aspect | Synonyms |
The act of conveying; carrying.
Means of conveyance.
A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
(British) A rail car, esp. designed for the conveyance of passengers.
A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 90:
(archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
(US, New England) A shopping cart.
(British) A stroller; a baby carriage.
The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward'', when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and ''carriage paid ).
Related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage -horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something
One's appearance or expression.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Dryden)
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Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
Prospect; outlook.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Evelyn)
(grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
(astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
(obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Francis Bacon)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Walter Scott)
(obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Thomas Burnet)
* (and other bibliographic particulars)
(computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
Carriage is a synonym of aspect.
As nouns the difference between carriage and aspect
is that carriage is the act of conveying; carrying while aspect is the way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.As an adjective carriage
is related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.carriage
English
Noun
(en noun)- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
- He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.
- He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that [...] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
- Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].
Hyponyms
* araba * barouche * Berlin * brougham * booby * brake * cab * calash * caravan * carriole * carryall * cart * Catherine * chaise * clarence * coach * coachee * Coburg * coup * croydon * curricle * dennet * devil-carriage * dobbin * dormeuse * double * droshky * family * fiacre * fly * four-wheeler * gharry * gig * Gladstone * hackery * hackney * hansom * hearse * horse-box * horse-fly * hutch * jaun * Jersey * landau * noddy * phaeton * Pilentum * post-chariot * Rockaway * rumbelow * shigram * sledge * sociable * solo * sulky * surrey * tarantass * unicorn * vettura * Victoria * vinaigrette (person-drawn or pushed; not horse-drawn) * * voiturin * volante * wagonette * walnut-shell * whirlicote * whiskyAdjective
(-)See also
* *aspect
English
(wikipedia aspect)Noun
(en noun)- serious in aspect
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect .}}
- It is Stephen Gardiner, black and scowling, his aspect in no way improved by his trip to Rome.
- This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended.
- (Milton)
- The basilisk killeth by aspect .
- His aspect was bent on the ground.
- the true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish
- the aspect of affairs
