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Docks vs Jetty - What's the difference?

docks | jetty |

As nouns the difference between docks and jetty

is that docks is plural of lang=en while jetty is a structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.

As verbs the difference between docks and jetty

is that docks is third-person singular of dock while jetty is to jut out; to project.

As an adjective jetty is

made of jet, or like jet in color.

docks

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (dock)

    • jetty

    English

    (wikipedia jetty)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ‘pier, jetty, causeway’. Compare jet, jutty.

    Noun

    (jetties)
  • A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
  • A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
  • (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
    • Synonyms
    * (protective structure) mole, breakwater * pier
    Coordinate terms
    * (pier) quay, levee
    Hypernyms
    * (pier) wharf, dock

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To jut out; to project.
    • (Florio)

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.75:
    • those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
    • She raised her face veil [...] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing [...].
    Derived terms
    * jettiness

    References

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