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Hymn vs Chapel - What's the difference?

hymn | chapel |

As nouns the difference between hymn and chapel

is that hymn is a song of praise or worship while chapel is a place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.

As verbs the difference between hymn and chapel

is that hymn is to sing (a hymn) while chapel is (nautical|transitive) to cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

As an adjective chapel is

(in wales) describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

hymn

English

(wikipedia hymn)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A song of praise or worship.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • Derived terms

    * hymnal * hymnbook * hymnodist * hymnody * hymnology * hymnographer * hymnography

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sing (a hymn).
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 21, author=Michael Coveney, title=Tom O'Horgan, work=The Guardian citation
  • , passage=An unknown cast, including Diane Keaton, hymned the Age of Aquarius, stripped off at the end of the first act and let the sunshine in at the end of the second. }}
  • To praise or extol in hymns.
  • * Keble
  • To hymn the bright of the Lord.
  • * Byron
  • Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.

    See also

    * theody ----

    chapel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.
  • A place of worship in a civil institution such as an airport, prison etc.
  • *, chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel , and there preached on “The Inner Life.”}}
  • A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
  • A trade union branch in UK printing or journalism.
  • A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
  • A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
  • Derived terms

    * chapel of ease * father of chapel * mother of chapel

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (in Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
  • The village butcher is chapel .

    Verb

    (chapell)
  • (nautical) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
  • (obsolete) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Anagrams

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