Pothole vs Cave - What's the difference?
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A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
* The earliest ideas on the creation of potholes''' are that they were associated with "moulins de glacier" (glacier mills) formed where surface streams on glaciers and ice sheets fall into holes in the ice. Water entering these surficial holes was believed to impact on the bedrock beneath creating a large '''pothole'''. The "Moulin Hypothesis", first suggested in 1874, continued to be accepted by many authors until the 1950s. However, commencing in the 1930s, other authors have suggested dissatisfaction with the moulin hypothesis, largely on the grounds that it failed to explain how ice could remain stable long enough for the "giant" '''potholes''' to form and why many '''potholes (like those at Rockwood) were present in large numbers. Grand River Conservation Authority (Canada) Newsletter of May-June 2002.
(geology) A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
(archaeology) A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure hunters or vandals.
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground, or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
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, title= A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
* {{quote-book, 1918, Edward Alfred Steiner, Uncle Joe's Lincoln
, passage=Every boy at one time or another has dug a cave ; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves,
A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
* {{quote-book, 1986, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Radiation Alarms and Access Control Systems, page=45
, passage=These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave )
(drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
* {{quote-book, 1951, James Deans Cumming, Diamond Drill Handbook, page=134
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(mining) A collapse or cave-in.
* {{quote-book, 1885, (Angelo Heilprin), Town Geology: The Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks, page=79
, passage=The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side.}}
The vagina.
* {{quote-book, 1976, (Chester Himes), My Life of Absurdity, page=59
, passage=Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring.}}
A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
* {{quote-book, 1964, Leon D. Epstein, British Politics in the Suez Crisis, page=125
, passage=Without joining the cave , Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957.}}
(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
* Francis Bacon
To surrender.
To collapse.
To hollow out or undermine.
To engage in the recreational exploration of caves; to spelunk.
(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
(mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
* {{quote-book, 1999, Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770, page=319
, passage=As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves to caving for scraps of ore. }}
(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
As a noun pothole
is a shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic or pothole can be (archaeology) a pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure hunters or vandals.As a proper noun cave is
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c 1826, from (etyl) + (hole)Noun
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* (large pit in the bed of a stream) giant kettleDerived terms
* potholingSee also
* sinkholeEtymology 2
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* English words with consonant pseudo-digraphscave
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(etyl), from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
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- the cave of the ear
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(cav)- He caved under pressure.
- First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave , then we ran.
- The levee has been severely caved by the river current.
- I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.
- Let's go caving this weekend.
- The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.
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