Coca vs Coda - What's the difference?
coca | coda |
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.
(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.
(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]
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)Derived terms
* cocaine * cocainExternal links
* (Erythroxylon coca) * (Erythroxylon coca) ----coda
English
Noun
(en noun)- The word ''salts'' has three consonants — ''/l/'', ''/t/'', and ''/s/'' — in its coda''', whereas the word ''glee'' has no '''coda at all.
- 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.