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City vs Delft - What's the difference?

city | delft |

As nouns the difference between city and delft

is that city is a large settlement, bigger than a town while delft is a style of blue and white earthenware.

As proper nouns the difference between city and delft

is that city is a popular shortened form of the City of London, the historic core of London where the Roman settlement of Londinium was established while Delft is city in the Netherlands, in the province of Zuid-Holland.

city

English

(wikipedia city)

Alternative forms

* cyte

Noun

(cities)
  • A large settlement, bigger than a town.
  • :
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city'; the ' city of one's dreams.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city ’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • (lb) The central business district; downtown.
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    • Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the above definition of "city") * citify * citizen * city banker * city block * city boy * city center * city centre * city clerk * city desk * city district * city father * city girl * city hall * city limit * city line * city man * city manager * city planning * city room * city slicker * city-state * cityscape * citywide * (l) * holy city * inner city/inner-city * sister city * the city * twin city (city)

    Related terms

    * civic * civil

    See also

    * metropolis * megalopolis * megacity

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    delft

    English

    Etymology 1

    After the Dutch city of Delft.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A style of blue and white earthenware.
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:Here and there was an Italian cabinet surmounted with Delft , and here and there a bas-relief.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.
  • * Ray
    • The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could keep them dry.
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