Consortium vs Columbarium - What's the difference?
consortium | columbarium |
An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.
An association or society.
(legal) The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.
A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France; a dovecote.
A pigeonhole in such a dovecote.
(by extension) A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains
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A niche in such a building for housing urns.
As nouns the difference between consortium and columbarium
is that consortium is an association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture while columbarium is a large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime france; a dovecote.consortium
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(wikipedia consortium) (en-noun)columbarium
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(wikipedia columbarium) (en-noun)- We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
- The columbarium (vaults lined with recesses for cinerary urns) in the form of a grotto (a cave-like structure) is the centerpiece of the Elks plot.