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Landscape vs Circumstance - What's the difference?

landscape | circumstance |

As nouns the difference between landscape and circumstance

is that landscape is a portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains while circumstance is that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.

As verbs the difference between landscape and circumstance

is that landscape is create or maintain a landscape while circumstance is to place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.

landscape

English

(wikipedia landscape)

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
  • A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
  • The pictorial aspect of a country.
  • (printing) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
  • A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape ")
  • (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
    • The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

    Antonyms

    * (printing mode) portrait

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * landscape gardener * landscape gardening * -scape

    Verb

    (landscap)
  • Create or maintain a landscape.

    • See also

    * dreamscape * moonscape * seascape

    Anagrams

    * English calques English words suffixed with -scape

    circumstance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * circumstaunce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
  • * Washington Irving
    • The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”}}
  • An event; a fact; a particular incident.
  • * Addison
    • The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history.
  • * 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 20:
    • Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child.
  • Circumlocution; detail.
  • * Shakespeare
    • So without more circumstance at all / I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.
  • Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
  • * Addison
    • When men are easy in their circumstances , they are naturally enemies to innovations.

    Derived terms

    {{der3, attendant circumstance , extenuating circumstances , under no circumstance , under the circumstances}}

    Verb

    (circumstanc)
  • To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.
  • * 1858 , , Chapter 8:
    • Tidings had in some shape reached is ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.
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