Hospital vs Morpheme - What's the difference?
hospital | morpheme |
A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
(obsolete) A place of lodging.
* , II.ix:
The place and state of being hospitalized.
(linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
As nouns the difference between hospital and morpheme
is that hospital is a building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients while morpheme is morpheme (smallest linguistic unit).As an adjective hospital
is (obsolete) hospitable.hospital
English
(wikipedia hospital)Noun
(en noun)- they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale , / They thither marcht [...].
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital .
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* cottage hospitalmorpheme
English
(wikipedia morpheme)Noun
(en noun)- The word pigs'' consists of two morphemes : ''pig'' (a particular animal) and ''s'' (indication of the plural).
- The word werewolves''' consists of four morphemes: "''were''" (~ man), "''wolf''" (a particular animal), "''es " (plural), and " ' " (indicating possessive).
