Downcome vs Downcore - What's the difference?
downcome | downcore |
A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.
In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.
*1904 , Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.), Journal of the Franklin Institute: Volume 158 - Page 279 :
*1995 , Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Page 242 :
As a noun downcome
is a tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.As a verb downcome
is to come down; fall down; come or fall apart.As an adjective downcore is
describing a sample taken from further down a core.downcome
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Milton)
Verb
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