Coua vs Coda - What's the difference?
coua | coda |
(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 coua and coda
is that coua is a terrestrial bird of the genus coua , in the cuckoo family while coda is a person born hearing to deaf parents.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.