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Coca vs Coda - What's the difference?

coca | coda |

As nouns the difference between coca and coda

is that coca is spanking while coda is a person born hearing to deaf parents.

As a verb coca

is .

coca

English

(wikipedia coca)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
  • The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.
  • Derived terms

    * cocaine * cocain

    coda

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
  • (linguistics) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
  • The word ''salts'' has three consonants — ''/l/'', ''/t/'', and ''/s/'' — in its coda''', whereas the word ''glee'' has no '''coda at all.
  • (geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
  • The conclusion of a statement.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
  • In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.
  • Synonyms

    * (end of a music piece) finale

    See also

    * chorus * onset * refrain * rime * vowel ----