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Lava vs Egressive - What's the difference?

lava | egressive |

As a verb lava

is to wash.

As an adjective egressive is

going or directed outward.

As a noun egressive is

(phonetics) a speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.

lava

English

(wikipedia lava)

Noun

  • The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
  • (informal, proscribed) Magma.

    • Usage notes

    Geologists make a distinction between magma (molten rock underground) and lava (molten rock on the surface).

    Derived terms

    * lava lamp * lava millstone * lava ware

    See also

    * aa * pahoehoe

    Anagrams

    * ----

    egressive

    English

    (wikipedia egressive)

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Going or directed outward.
  • (phonetics, of a speech sound) Uttered by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
  • (geology) descriptive of a place or channel through which something such as water or lava leaves an area.
    • This ancient wash was an egressive channel that once drained a lake .

    Antonyms

    * ingressive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonetics) A speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.

    • Antonyms

    * ingressive ----