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As proper nouns the difference between hell and earth

is that hell is while earth is the third planet in order from the sun, upon which humans live represented in astronomy and astrology by.

hell

English

(wikipedia hell)

Alternative forms

* (Christianity) Hell * *

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
    • Do Muslims believe that all non-Muslims go to hell ?
  • (Abrahamic religions, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death
    • May you rot in hell !
  • * 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost
    • Better to reign in Hell' than serve in ' Heaven .
  • * 1916 , James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    • Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.

    Synonyms

    * (euphemisms for Christian place for damned souls after death) Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld * (Mormonism) Spirit]] [[prison, Prison

    Antonyms

    * (sense) heaven

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable, hyperbole) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
    • My new boss is making my job a hell .
    I went through hell to get home today.
  • * 1879 , General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy
    • There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell .
  • *
  • (countable) A place for gambling.
  • * W. Black
    • a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless
  • * 1907 , (Joseph Conrad), The Secret Agent
  • An extremely hot place.
    • You don't have a snowball's chance in hell .
  • (Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun)
    • I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
    What the hell is wrong with you?
    He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
  • (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
    • (Hudibras)
  • In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

    • Derived terms

    * as hell * forty minutes of hell * hell and half of Georgia * hella * hellagood * hell-fire * hell for leather * hell hath no fury like a woman scorned * hellish * hell on earth * hell on wheels * hell's delight * hellspawn * hell to pay * hell week * like hell * living hell * no screaming hell * the hell * the hell out of * the hell with it * to hell with * what the hell

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
    • Oh, hell ! I got another parking ticket.
    • Hell , yeah!

    See also

    * damn * heck English intensifiers English swear words ----

    earth

    English

    (wikipedia earth)

    Proper noun

  • Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
    • The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.

    Usage notes

    * The word earth' is capitalized to ' Earth when used in context with other celestial bodies.

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Soil.
  • (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
  • The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth .}}
  • (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
  • A fox's home or lair.
  • The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
  • * 1819 , John Keats , "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
    • "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all / Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know.
  • (alchemy) One of the (w).
  • (India, and, Japan) One of the (w).
  • (Taoism) One of the (w).

    • Derived terms

    *diatomaceous earth * down to earth * earth closet * Earth Day * earth mother * Earth Summit * * earth tone * earthbound or earth-bound * earthen * earthenware * earthquake * earthling * earthly * earthly paradise * earthquake * earth-shattering * earth sign * earthworm * earthy * ends of the earth * flat earthers * go to earth * Mother Earth * rare earth * rare earth mineral * run to earth * salt of the earth * scorched earth * unearth

    See also

    * moon * sun * world * * *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British) To connect electrically to the earth .
    • That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed .
  • To bury.
  • * Young
    • The miser earths his treasure, and the thief, / Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
  • To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
  • * Dryden
    • The fox is earthed .
  • To burrow.
    • (Tickell)

    Synonyms

    * (to connect electrically to the earth) (US) ground

    Derived terms

    * unearth

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