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Clearing vs Glade - What's the difference?

clearing | glade |

As nouns the difference between clearing and glade

is that clearing is the act or process of making or becoming clear while glade is an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

As a verb clearing

is present participle of lang=en.

clearing

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of making or becoming clear.
  • An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges
  • An open space in the fog etc.
  • A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
  • (label) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
  • (label) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
  • (label) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
  • Anagrams

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    glade

    English

    (wikipedia glade)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
  • * 2003 , Newsweek, Travel: In The Trees , Nov 23, 2003
  • ... are creating more "glades ," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.
  • * 1851 ,
  • [...] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
  • (colloquial) An everglade.
  • an open space in the ice on a river or lake
  • a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
  • In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade . — Vignette: A Writing Exercise
  • (obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
  • (obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
  • Derived terms

    * moonglade * sunglade

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