Forest vs Cave - What's the difference?
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A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Any dense collection or amount.
(historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 (graph theory) A disjoint union of trees.
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground, or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
* , chapter=16
, title= A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
* {{quote-book, 1918, Edward Alfred Steiner, Uncle Joe's Lincoln
, passage=Every boy at one time or another has dug a cave ; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves,
A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
* {{quote-book, 1986, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Radiation Alarms and Access Control Systems, page=45
, passage=These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave )
(drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
* {{quote-book, 1951, James Deans Cumming, Diamond Drill Handbook, page=134
, passage=
(mining) A collapse or cave-in.
* {{quote-book, 1885, (Angelo Heilprin), Town Geology: The Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks, page=79
, passage=The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side.}}
The vagina.
* {{quote-book, 1976, (Chester Himes), My Life of Absurdity, page=59
, passage=Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring.}}
A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
* {{quote-book, 1964, Leon D. Epstein, British Politics in the Suez Crisis, page=125
, passage=Without joining the cave , Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957.}}
(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
* Francis Bacon
To surrender.
To collapse.
To hollow out or undermine.
To engage in the recreational exploration of caves; to spelunk.
(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
(mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
* {{quote-book, 1999, Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770, page=319
, passage=As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves to caving for scraps of ore. }}
(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
As a noun forest
is a dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area larger than woods.As a verb forest
is to cover an area with trees.As a proper noun cave is
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(wikipedia forest)Noun
(en noun)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
- forest of criticism.
citation, passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest' emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the ' forest , dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* forestal * forest-bill * forested * forester * forestial * forestlike * forestry * can't see the forest for the trees * rainforestSee also
* (commonslite)See also
* bush * deforest * holt * jungle * weald * wood * woodland * woodsAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----cave
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* caveman * cave painting * cavewomanVerb
(cav)- He caved under pressure.
- First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave , then we ran.
- The levee has been severely caved by the river current.
- I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.
- Let's go caving this weekend.
- The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.
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