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Gorge vs Butte - What's the difference?

gorge | butte |

As nouns the difference between gorge and butte

is that gorge is a deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine while butte is an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

As a verb gorge

is to eat greedily and in large quantities.

As an adjective gorge

is gorgeous.

As a proper noun Butte is

a city in Montana.

gorge

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl), from

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
  • * '>citation
  • The throat or gullet.
  • * Spenser
  • Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Now, how abhorred! my gorge rises at it.
  • That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  • * Spenser
  • And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge , that all did him detest.
  • A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
  • an ice gorge in a river
  • (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
  • (Gwilt)
  • (nautical) The groove of a pulley.
  • Verb

    (gorg)
  • To eat greedily and in large quantities.
  • They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
  • To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • * Johnson
  • The fish has gorged the hook.
  • To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
  • * Dryden
  • Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
  • * Addison
  • The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den
    Derived terms
    * disgorge * engorge

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from gorgeous .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (UK, slang) Gorgeous.
  • Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge ?

    butte

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top
  • * '>citation