Gorge vs Cavity - What's the difference?
gorge | cavity | Related terms |
A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
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The throat or gullet.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
* Spenser
A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
(architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
(nautical) The groove of a pulley.
To eat greedily and in large quantities.
To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
* Johnson
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
* Dryden
* Addison
(UK, slang) Gorgeous.
A hole or hollow depression.
A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
(dentistry) A soft area in a decayed tooth.
Gorge is a related term of cavity.
As a verb gorge
is .As a noun cavity is
a hole or hollow depression.gorge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), fromNoun
(en noun)- Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
- Now, how abhorred! my gorge rises at it.
- And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge , that all did him detest.
- an ice gorge in a river
- (Gwilt)
Verb
(gorg)- They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
- The fish has gorged the hook.
- Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
- The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den
Derived terms
* disgorge * engorgeEtymology 2
Shortened from gorgeous .Adjective
(head)- Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge ?
