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Glade vs Mire - What's the difference?

glade | mire |

As nouns the difference between glade and mire

is that glade is an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest while mire is .

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

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "glade")

    Derived terms

    * moonglade * sunglade

    References

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    mire

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , whence Old English mos (English moss).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
  • * When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire .'' (, ''Tales from Shakespeare , Hatier, coll. « Les Classiques pour tous » n° 223, p. 51)
  • An undesirable situation, a predicament.
    • Synonyms
    * (deep mud) peatland, quag
    Hypernyms
    * (deep mud) wetland
    Hyponyms
    * (deep mud) bog, fen
    Derived terms
    * mire crow * mire drum * miry * in the mire * quagmire

    Verb

    (mir)
  • To weigh down.
  • To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
    • to mire a horse or wagon
  • To soil with mud or foul matter.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Smirched thus and mired with infamy.

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps related to Middle Dutch miere (Dutch mier). Cognate with Old Norse maurr, Danish myre. All probably from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An ant.

    • Anagrams

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