Earth vs Earsh - What's the difference?
earth | earsh |
Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
(uncountable) Soil.
(uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
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, title= (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
A fox's home or lair.
The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
* 1819 , John Keats , "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
(alchemy) One of the (w).
(India, and, Japan) One of the (w).
(Taoism) One of the (w).
(British) To connect electrically to the earth .
To bury.
* Young
To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
* Dryden
To burrow.
(archaic) stubble field.
* 1628 Fires oft are good on barren earshes made, With crackling flames to burn the stubble blade’ Translation of Georgics by Virgil, Thomas May,
As nouns the difference between earth and earsh
is that earth is soil while earsh is stubble field.As a proper noun earth
is our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.As a verb earth
is to connect electrically to the earth.earth
English
(wikipedia earth)Proper noun
- The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.
Usage notes
* The word earth' is capitalized to ' Earth when used in context with other celestial bodies.Noun
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- "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all / Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know.
Derived terms
*diatomaceous earth * down to earth * earth closet * Earth Day * earth mother * Earth Summit * * earth tone * earthbound or earth-bound * earthen * earthenware * earthquake * earthling * earthly * earthly paradise * earthquake * earth-shattering * earth sign * earthworm * earthy * ends of the earth * flat earthers * go to earth * Mother Earth * rare earth * rare earth mineral * run to earth * salt of the earth * scorched earth * unearthSee also
* moon * sun * world * * *Verb
(en verb)- That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed .
- The miser earths his treasure, and the thief, / Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
- The fox is earthed .
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