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Elve vs Elfe - What's the difference?

elve | elfe |

As nouns the difference between elve and elfe

is that elve is (astronomy|meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity while elfe is a female elf, a fairy, nymph.

elve

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
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    • Sir Olof he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve -dance gay.

    See also

    * blue starter * bluejet * gigantic jet * gnome * pixie * red sprite * sprelve * sprite halo * sprite * transient luminous events * troll * upward lightning ----

    elfe

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A female elf, a fairy, nymph
  • :* Scho was so faire & so fresche, as faucon hire semed, An elfe out of an-othire erde, or ellis an Aungell. — The Wars of Alexander, 1450
  • :: (She was so fair and happy and seemed elegant, an elfe from another world or else an angel.)
  • :* He was takyn with an elfe ... When the clok stroke twelf was he forshapyn. — The Towneley Plays, 1500
  • :* Maiden Elfe — Jesse White, drawing caption, 2009
  • :* Fantasy Elfe And Dragon Art Wallpaper 1024x768

    • References

  • MED, elf, elve(n)
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