What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Cottage vs She - What's the difference?

cottage | she |

As a noun cottage

is a small house; a cot; a hut.

As a verb cottage

is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.

As an initialism she is

initialism of standard hydrogen electrode.

cottage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small house; a cot; a hut.
  • A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage ’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
  • (UK, slang, dated) A public toilet.

    • Usage notes

    Sense “public toilet” dates from 19th century, now only in gay slang.

    Derived terms

    * cottage cheese * cottage hospital * cottage industry

    Related terms

    * (l) *

    Verb

    (cottag)
  • To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
  • (intransitive, British, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
    • ----

    she

    English

    (wikipedia she)

    Pronoun

  • (personal) A female person or animal.
  • * , II.ix:
    • Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [...].
    I asked Mary, but she''' said that '''she didn't know.
  • A ship.
    • She could do forty knots in good weather.
    She''' is a beautiful boat, isn't '''she ?
  • (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
    • She''' only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but '''she' s durable.
  • (personal, nonstandard) .
  • * , Flow , 1990:
    • Optimal experience is thus something that we make'' happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she''' has built, higher than any ' she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.

    See also

    (English personal pronouns)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A female.
    • Pat is definitely a she .
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare:
    • And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.
  • * 2000 , Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1-2, page 189:
    • A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.

    Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

    * (l), 100 English basic words English personal pronouns English third person pronouns 1000 English basic words ----