Hollow vs Valley - What's the difference?
hollow | valley |
(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
(of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.
* Prior
* Tennyson
A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
(US) A sunken area.
(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
* Sir Walter Scott
An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
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Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
As nouns the difference between hollow and valley
is that hollow is a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations while valley is an elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.As an adjective hollow
is (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.As an adverb hollow
is completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.As a verb hollow
is to make a hole in something; to excavate.As an interjection hollow
is alternative form of lang=en.As a proper noun Valley is
the San Fernando Valley in southern California.hollow
English
Alternative forms
* hollerEtymology 1
(etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.Adjective
(er)- a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere
- a hollow moan
- (Dryden)
- a hollow victory
- a hollow promise
- With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
Derived terms
* hollow legAdverb
(-)Etymology 2
(etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.Noun
(en noun)- Forests grew upon the barren hollows .
- I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
- He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
- the hollow of the hand or of a tree
- a hollow in the pit of one's stomach
Etymology 3
Compare holler.Verb
(en verb)- He has hollowed the hounds.
valley
English
Noun
(en noun)John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys .}}