Counterline vs Countermine - What's the difference?
counterline | countermine |
(music) A secondary melody that contrasts with the main melody and is played at the same time.
A line of entrenchment made against an enemy's lines A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 436:
*:Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine , but the tunnel was now far too close for that.
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
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As nouns the difference between counterline and countermine
is that counterline is (music) a secondary melody that contrasts with the main melody and is played at the same time while countermine is a mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.As a verb countermine is
to plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.counterline
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Noun
(en noun)countermine
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
Verb
(countermin)- every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.