Harbour vs Lake - What's the difference?
harbour | lake |
(en noun) (British, Canada)
(obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
A place of shelter or refuge.
(obsolete) A house of the zodiac.
* Late 14th century: To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, Canterbury Tales
A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload.
(astrology) The mansion of a heavenly body.
A mixing box for materials in glass-working.
To provide shelter or refuge for.
* Bishop Burnet
* Rowe
To accept, as with a belief.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Moldova 0-5 England
, work=BBC Sport
A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
A large, landlocked stretch of water.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake . I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
A large amount of liquid; as , a wine lake.
* 1991 , (Robert DeNiro) (actor), :
(obsolete) To present an offering.
(chiefly, dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
To make lake-red.
(obsolete) To play; to sport.
As nouns the difference between harbour and lake
is that harbour is (obsolete|uncountable) shelter, refuge while lake is , valley.As a verb harbour
is to provide shelter or refuge for.harbour
English
Alternative forms
* herberwe (obsolete) * herborough (obsolete) * harbor (now US)Noun
(wikipedia harbour)- The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.
- The city has an excellent natural harbour .
Derived terms
* harbourage * harbourmaster * unharbouredVerb
(en verb)- The docks, which once harboured''' tall ships, now '''harbour only petty thieves.
- The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
- Let not your gentle breast harbour one thought of outrage.
- That scientist harbours the belief that God created humans.
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See also
* dock * havenlake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Despite their similarity in form and meaning, (etyl) lake is not related to (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
