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Grief vs Gravel - What's the difference?

grief | gravel |

As nouns the difference between grief and gravel

is that grief is suffering, hardship while gravel is (uncountable) small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.

As verbs the difference between grief and gravel

is that grief is (online gaming) to deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially , to do this as one’s primary activity in the game while gravel is to apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.

grief

English

(wikipedia grief)

Noun

  • Suffering, hardship.
  • Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
    • She was worn out from so much grief .
    The betrayal caused Jeff grief .
  • (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
    • Surely, he hath borne our griefs , and carried our sorrows. -Isaiah 53:4

    Derived terms

    * give someone grief

    Verb

    (en verb) (Griefer)
  • (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially , to do this as one’s primary activity in the game.

    • Usage notes

    * This verb is most commonly found in the gerund-participle (griefing) and the derived noun (griefer).

    Related terms

    * grievance * grieve * grievous

    External links

    * * * English internet slang ----

    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.