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Earthquake vs Hutt - What's the difference?

earthquake | hutt |

As a noun earthquake

is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

As a verb hutt is

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earthquake

English

(wikipedia earthquake)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
    • Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
  • * 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
    • Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.

    Synonyms

    * earthdin * quake * seism * temblor * terremote * tremblor * tremor

    Derived terms

    * earthquake-prone

    Related terms

    * moonquake * seaquake * starquake

    See also

    * aftershock * earthquake engineering * fault line * Richter scale * seismic * seismograph * seismologist * seismology * tremor * tsunami

    hutt

    English

    Proper noun

  • A river and valley in Western Australia.
  • * 1841 , "Australind", The Monthly Chronicle , volume VII, page 402
    • The following passages describe the banks of the Hutt , to which allusion has already been made as the largest river of Western Australia yet known.
  • A river and valley on the North Island of New Zealand.
  • * 1869 , J. C. Crawford, Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute ?, page 344
    • Having forded the Hutt , I proceeded up the course of the Akatarewa.
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