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Club vs Federation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between club and federation

is that club is a heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or playthingWp while federation is act of joining together into a single political entity.

As a verb club

is to hit with a club.

As an adjective federation is

of an architectural style popular around the time of federation.

club

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything(w).
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs ,
  • #An implement to hit the ball in some ballgames, e.g. golf.
  • An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club , or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • #(lb) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
  • #*(rfdate) (Benjamin Franklin):
  • #*:He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
  • A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
  • *(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
  • *:They laid down the club .
  • *(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
  • *:We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club .
  • An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
  • :
  • A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
  • #A playing card marked with such a symbol.
  • #:
  • (lb) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
  • :
  • :

    • Synonyms

    * (weapon) cudgel * (sports association) team

    Hyponyms

    * *

    Derived terms

    * benefit club * clubbing * clubfoot * clubhouse * club sandwich * golf club * nightclub * on the club

    Verb

    (clubb)
  • to hit with a club.
    • He clubbed the poor dog.
  • To join together to form a group.
  • * Dryden
    • Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
  • (transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
    • a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
  • To go to nightclubs.
    • We went clubbing in Ibiza.
  • To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
  • To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
    • to club the expense
  • (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
  • (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1876 , author=Major-General G. E. Voyle and Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S. , title=A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition , publisher=London: William Clowes & Sons , page=80 , passage=To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. }}
  • To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
    • to club exertions
  • (military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    federation

    English

    (wikipedia federation)

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of joining together into a single (l) (l).
    • It is 106 years since federation .
  • Array of (l) or states that are (l) under one central authority which is elected by its members.
  • Any (l) or organisation formed from separate groups or bodies.
  • (computing, telecommunications) A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.

    • Adjective

    (Federation architecture) (-)
  • (Australia) Of an architectural style popular around the time of federation.
    • We live in a federation house.
  • * 2000 , Donald Denoon, Philippa Mein Smith, Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific , page 221,
    • The Federation house claimed a unique place in architecture, even if it offended architects.
  • * 2002 , Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Australia: Handbook , page 754,
    • Five Chimneys', 15 Maria St, T8563 0240. Comfortable accomodation in large ' federation house , spa, swimming pool.
  • * 2010 , Adrian Franklin, Collecting the 20th Century , page 27,
    • Plaster kookaburras from the 1930s would still look good in a nature-themed Federation house; h27 cm.
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