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Graven vs Gravel - What's the difference?

graven | gravel |

As verbs the difference between graven and gravel

is that graven is while gravel is to apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.

As an adjective graven

is carved, engraved.

As a noun gravel is

(uncountable) small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.

graven

English

Adjective

(-)
  • carved, engraved
  • * Old Testament (Exodus 20:4 KJV)
    • Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
  • Something fashioned by man, or something man-made. Anything made by man's hands.
  • Something that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1872 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=James De Mille , title=The Cryptogram , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks. }} English adjectives ending in -en ----

    gravel

    English

    (wikipedia gravel)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (small stones or pebbles) * (calculus deposit) stones, gallstones

    See also

    * alluvium

    Verb

    (gravell)
  • 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= citation
    • , 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 citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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)
    • When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they gravelled the ship.
  • * Camden
    • 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.
  • To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • * Shakespeare
    • When you were gravelled for lack of matter.
  • * Sir T. North
    • The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.
  • To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Usage notes

    * In North American English, the forms graveled and graveling are more common.