What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Karst vs Earst - What's the difference?

karst | earst |

As a proper noun karst

is a mountainous region in northeastern italy and southwestern slovenia.

As an adverb earst is

.

karst

English

(Karst topography)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
  • * 1978 , M. M. Sweeting, “The Karst of Kweilin, Southern China,” The Geographical Journal , vol. 144, no. 2, p. 200:
    • In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming.
  • * 2009 , Katherine Harmon, “Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008,” ScientificAmerican.com , May 29, 2009:
    • The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed.

    Derived terms

    * karstology * thermokarst

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    earst

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • * 1590 , , The Faerie Queene (1921), Book I:
    • So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right, And each to deadly shame would drive his foe: The cruell steele so greedily doth bight 75 In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow, With which the armes, that earst so bright did show, Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: Great ruth in all the gazers harts did grow, Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde, 80 That victory they dare not wish to either side.
    ----