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Helm vs Realm - What's the difference?

helm | realm |

As nouns the difference between helm and realm

is that helm is the steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel while realm is an abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

As a verb helm

is to be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat.

As a proper noun Helm

is the only named wind in the British Isles. Blows westward form the Pennine fells over Cumbria and is often accompanied by a line of clouds on top of the hills called the Helm Bar.

helm

English

(wikipedia helm)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) The steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel.
  • (maritime) The member of the crew in charge of steering the boat.
  • (figurative) A position of leadership or control.
    • the helm of the Commonwealth
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 11 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Grant will be desperate to finish the job of getting West Ham to their first Wembley cup final in 30 years when they meet Birmingham in the second leg at St Andrews on 26 January; though arguably of more pressing concern is whether he will still be at the helm for Saturday's Premier League encounter with Arsenal.}}
  • One at the place of direction or control; a guide; a director.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers
  • (heraldry) A helmet.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A helve.
    • Derived terms
    * at the helm * take the helm

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat.
  • * Tennyson
    • A wild wave overbears the bark, / And him that helms it.
  • (by extension) To lead (a project, etc.).
  • * 2014 , Malcolm Jack, " John Grant with the Royal Northern Sinfonia review – positively spine-tingling", The Guardian , 1 December 2014:
    • “I wanted to change the world, but I could not even change my underwear,” sings John Grant at the piano, in a luxuriant baritone croon as thick and healthy as his beard. It’s hard to reconcile the guy who once struggled to so much as put on clean pants back in the bad old days – well-storied, not least through his own songs – with the one warmly and gracefully helming this complex, prestigious production – the penultimate date on a tour of packed concert halls, backed by an orchestra.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the business he hath helmed

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (archaic) A helmet.
  • :* Luken sweord longe, leiden o þe helmen . — Layamon's Brut, 1275
  • :: (They drew their swords and put on their helmen .)
  • :* Þe helm of hel and þe swerd of þe Spirit. — An Apology for Lollard Doctrines, Attributed to Wycliffe, 1475
  • :* The kynge Ban be-gan to laugh vndir his helme . — Merlin, 1500
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1927 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Outlaw of Torn , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage="A fearful apparition," murmured Norman of Torn. "No wonder he keeps his helm closed." }}
  • A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.
    • (Halliwell)
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (a straw)
    • English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    realm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
  • * 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""
    • Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
  • * 2006 , Christian Neef, " Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,
    • At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm  
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
  • The domain of a certain abstraction.
  • * 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",
    • One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
  • (formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
  • * 1874 , ,
    • And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
  • * 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",
    • Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,

    Synonyms

    * (A territory or state) country, land, kingdom * (A sphere of activity or influence) field, province

    Derived terms

    * abstract realm * Commonwealth realm * custom of the realm * Eastern Realm * experience realm * floristic realm * Ice Realm * in the realm of shades * Northern Realm * realm of banking * realm of fantasy * realm of the dead * realm of possibility * Snow Realm * Southern Realm * Western Realm

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