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Cliche vs Caliche - What's the difference?

cliche | caliche |

As nouns the difference between cliche and caliche

is that cliche is (overused phrase or expression) while caliche is (mineral) a crude form of sodium nitrate from south america; used as a fertilizer.

cliche

English

Alternative forms

* cliche

Noun

(wikipedia cliché) (en noun)
  • Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude.
    • The villain kidnapping the love interest in a film is a bit of a cliché .
  • (printing) A stereotype (printing plate).

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    * The alternative spelling .)

    Synonyms

    * platitude * stereotype * See also

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    caliche

    English

    (wikipedia caliche)

    Noun

  • (mineral) A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer.
  • A layer of hard clay subsoil or sedimentary rock; hardpan.
  • * 1929 , US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas , page 44,
    • According to local well drillers, in wells drilled on the high plains a few hundred feet back from the caliche' escarpment or in other locations on the high plains in this area no hard '''caliche''' or white layer, such as would characterize a soft layer of high lime-carbonate content, is generally reached at a depth corresponding to the elevation of the ' caliche escarpment.
  • * 1985 , Julie Behrend Weinberg, Growing Food In the High Desert Country , page 17,
    • Having a layer of caliche' at depths of 16 inches and less really puts a damper on the garden site. The ' caliche does not allow roots to penetrate it (tree roots often take 10 years to break through a caliche layer) nor does this mineral allow water to drain.
  • * 2011 , Hüseyin Yalçin, Ömer Bozkaya, Chapter 7: Sepiolite-Palygorskite Occurrences in Turkey'', Arieh Singer, Emilio Galan (editors), ''Developments in Palygorskite-Sepiolite Research , page 186,
    • Caliche in various forms, namely powdery, nodule, tube, fracture-infill, laminar crust, hard laminated crust (hardpan) and pisolitic crust, is widespread in the Mersin area in southern Turkey (Eren et al., 2008; Kadir and Eren, 2008).

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