Hurdle vs Huddle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between hurdle and huddle

is that hurdle is an artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race while huddle is a dense and disorderly crowd.

As verbs the difference between hurdle and huddle

is that hurdle is to jump over something while running while huddle is to crowd together as when distressed or in fear.

hurdle

English

Noun

(en noun)

An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.

(senseid)A perceived obstacle.

A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 414.

The practice of folding sheep was general, and the purchase of hurdles was a regular charge in the shepherd's account.

(UK, obsolete) A sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.

(Francis Bacon)

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Synonyms

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Verb

(hurdl)

To jump over something while running.

He hurdled the bench in his rush to get away.

To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).

To overcome an obstacle.

To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.

(Milton)

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huddle

English

Noun

(en noun)

a dense and disorderly crowd

(American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.

Verb

(huddl)

To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4

During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.

To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.

To get together and discuss.

* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.

(American football) To form a huddle.

To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.

* (John Locke)

Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.

To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).

* J. H. Newman

Huddle up a peace.

* (John Dryden)

Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.

* (Jonathan Swift)

Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.