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Civil vs Chapel - What's the difference?

civil | chapel |

As adjectives the difference between civil and chapel

is that civil is having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion while chapel is (in wales) describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

As a noun chapel is

a place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.

As a verb chapel is

(nautical|transitive) to cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

civil

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (uncomparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
    • She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people .
  • (comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner.
    • It was very civil of him to stop the argument

    Antonyms

    (ant-top) * (l) (ant-mid) * (l) (ant-bottom)

    Derived terms

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    chapel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.
  • A place of worship in a civil institution such as an airport, prison etc.
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  • A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
  • A trade union branch in UK printing or journalism.
  • A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
  • A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

    • Derived terms

    * chapel of ease * father of chapel * mother of chapel

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (in Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
    • The village butcher is chapel .

    Verb

    (chapell)
  • (nautical) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
  • (obsolete) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Anagrams

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