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Fave vs Nave - What's the difference?

fave | nave |

As nouns the difference between fave and nave

is that fave is favorite (US) or favourite (UK while nave is the middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.

As an adjective fave

is favorite (US) or favourite (UK).

fave

English

Alternative forms

* fav

Adjective

(head)
  • (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
  • * 2010 September, , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 8:
    • At stlmag.com this month
  • *:* Select articles from this issue
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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK)
    • English clippings ----

    nave

    English

    Etymology 1

    Ultimately from (etyl) , via a Romance source.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) nafu, from (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hub of a wheel.
  • * --William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act II, Scene 2
    • 'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,
    In general synod take away her power;
    Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
    And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven...
  • (obsolete) The navel.
  • * William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene 1:
    • Till he faced the slave;/Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,/And fix'd his head upon our battlements
    Related terms
    * navel

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