Death vs Heath - What's the difference?

As proper nouns the difference between death and heath

is that death is the personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse while heath is .

death

English

(wikipedia death)

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..

*1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Ch.I:

*:"‘Death ,’" quoted Warwick, with whose mood the undertaker's remarks were in tune, "‘is the penalty that all must pay for the crime of living.’"

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The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.

(lb) The collapse or end of something.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* accidental death * angel of death * at death's door * Black Death * brain death * cause of death * cell death * civil death * clinical death * cot death * dance of death * dead * deadly * death adder * death angel * death bell * death benefit * death by burning * death by fire * death camas * death camp * death cap * death certificate * death chair * death chamber * death cross * death cup * death drive * death duty * death growl * death house * death instinct * death knell * death march * death mask * death metal * death penalty * death phase * death put * death rate * death rattle * death ray * death roll * death row * death seat * death sentence * death spiral * death squad * death stick * death tax * death to * death toll * Death Valley * death warrant * death wish * death's-head * deathbird * deathblow * deathful * deathless * deathlike * deathly * deathmatch * deathsman * deathward * deathwatch * deathy * fan death * heat death * human death * infant death * instadeath * kiss of death * life-and-death * life-or-death * like death warmed over * living death * megadeath * near-death * put to death * screen death * sentence to death * sudden death * sudden infant death syndrome * valley of death * violent death * voodoo death * wrongful death (lookfrom)

External links

* The Definition of Death - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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heath

English

(wikipedia heath)

Noun

A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

* ~1602 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:

*:1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath /3. There to meet with Macbeth

Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae .

* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 258:

There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.

# Many of the species in the genus Erica

# Many of the species in the genus Cassiope

# Both species in the genus

# Any of the species in the genus

(label) Certain butterflies and moths

# The palaearctic species of Coenonympha , a genus of brush-footed butterfly

## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath

## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath

# , the heath fritillary

Usage notes

* The word heaths may describe multiple disconnected heathlands.

Synonyms

* heather