Coral vs Corral - What's the difference?
coral | corral |
(uncountable) A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
(countable) A colony of marine polyps.
(countable) A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.
The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
(historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
Made of coral.
Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.
An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
To capture or round up.
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, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
To place inside of a corral.
To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
As nouns the difference between coral and corral
is that coral is a hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps while corral is an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.As an adjective coral
is made of coral.As a proper noun Coral
is {{given name|female|from=English}}.As a verb corral is
to capture or round up.coral
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(wikipedia coral)Noun
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * coralise/coralize * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *See also
* atoll * barrier reef * dactylozooid * fringing reef * gonophore * gorgonian * Great Barrier Reef * madrepore * millepore * sea fan * sea whip *Anagrams
* * ----corral
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Noun
(en noun)- We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
- Please return the shopping carts to the corral .
- The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Commanche attacks.