Gravel vs Grave - What's the difference?
gravel | grave |
(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
(uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
(uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=John F. Hume, title=The Abolitionists, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We kept quietly on our way until we reached a place in the road that had been freshly graveled , and where the surface was covered with stones just suited to our use.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2006, date=May 5, author=Harold Henderson, title=Snips, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The soldiers admitted that while they had the money to lay gravel on a particular road, they lacked the funds to pave it, even though all agreed that graveled roads offered easy concealment for IEDs.}}
To puzzle or annoy
* {{quote-book, year=1894, author=Anthony Hope, title=Dolly Dialogues, chapter=, edition=
, passage="The fracture is your making; the pin--" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Christopher Darlington Morley, title=Mince Pie, chapter=, edition=
, passage='Oh, yes,' says Jan. Pond was graveled ; didn't know just what to do.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Herbert Quick, title=Vandemark's Folly, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It graveled me like sixty to pay such a price, but I had to do it because the season was just between hay and grass.}}
To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
* Bible, Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version)
* Camden
To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
* Shakespeare
* Sir T. North
To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
(Webster 1913)
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
* (rfdate), 11:17:
* 1856 , Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), (Gustave Flaubert) (author), (Madame Bovary) , Part III, Chapter X:
death, destruction.
(obsolete) To dig.
* (rfdate) (Book of Prayer) , (Psalms) 7:16:
(obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
* (w) 28:9:
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* (rfdate) (Robert Louis Stevenson), Requiem :
(obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
* (rfdate) (Geoffrey Chaucer):
(obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
* (rfdate) (Matthew Prior):
(obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare):
(transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
(obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
(obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
*, II.3.7:
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
* (rfdate) (Moore), Encyclopedia of Music :
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
As nouns the difference between gravel and grave
is that gravel is small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast while grave is an excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.As verbs the difference between gravel and grave
is that gravel is to apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc while grave is to dig.As an adjective grave is
influential, important; authoritative.gravel
English
(wikipedia gravel)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (small stones or pebbles) * (calculus deposit) stones, gallstonesSee also
* alluviumVerb
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- When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they gravelled the ship.
- Willam the Conqueror chanced as his arrival to be gravelled ; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground.
- When you were gravelled for lack of matter.
- The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.
Usage notes
* In North American English, the forms graveled and graveling are more common.grave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- He had lain in the grave four days.
- They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
Derived terms
* begrave * dance on someone's grave * dig one's own grave * early grave * graveclothes * grave marker * grave robber * graverobbing * gravedigger * gravelike * graveside * gravesite * gravestone * graveward * mass grave * turn in one's grave * war grave * white man's graveSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- He hath graven and digged up a pit.
- Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
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- This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"
- With gold men may the hearte grave .
- O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
- Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave , and wise.
- ''The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.