Crater vs Strombolian - What's the difference?
crater | strombolian |
(astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
(geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
(informal) The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb.
(informal) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
To collapse catastrophically; implode; hollow out; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
(snowboarding) To crash or fall.
(Ireland, informal, UK, dialect) A term of endearment, a dote, a wretched thing.
Of, or pertaining to, the island or volcano of Stromboli.
Describing a volcanic eruption characterized by a fiery fountain of lava from a single, central crater
As a noun crater
is crater.As an adjective strombolian is
(geology) (strombolian).crater
English
Etymology 1
First coined 1613, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (astronomy) astrobleme * (geology) calderaVerb
(en verb)- The economy is about to crater . -- Attributed by David Letterman to Sen. John McCain.
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- He cratered into that snow bank about five seconds after his first lesson.
Etymology 2
Possibly a diminutive of cratur (dialect form of creature ).Noun
(en noun)- 1843' - I then had the two best tarriers beneath the canopy; this poor '''crater is their daughter," and he patted the dog's head affectionately.
William Hamilton Maxwell, '' Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches , Publisher R. Bentley, page 77,
- 1859' - She is a charming ' crater ; I would venture to say that, if I was not her father.
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- 1872 (Thomas Hardy) "Under the Greenwood Tree"
- "Then why not stop for fellow-craters -- going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?"
