Slipway vs Jetty - What's the difference?
slipway | jetty |
(nautical) A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched.
A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
(architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
(obsolete) To jut out; to project.
(archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.75:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
As nouns the difference between slipway and jetty
is that slipway is (nautical) a sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched while jetty is a structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.As a verb jetty is
(obsolete|intransitive) to jut out; to project.As an adjective jetty is
(archaic) made of jet, or like jet in color.slipway
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Noun
(wikipedia slipway) (en noun)jetty
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(wikipedia jetty)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ‘pier, jetty, causeway’. Compare jet, jutty.Noun
(jetties)Synonyms
* (protective structure) mole, breakwater * pierCoordinate terms
* (pier) quay, leveeHypernyms
* (pier) wharf, dockVerb
(en-verb)- (Florio)
Etymology 2
Adjective
(er)- those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].
- She raised her face veil [...] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing [...].