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League vs Chapel - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between league and chapel

is that league is a group or association of cooperating members while chapel is a place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.

As verbs the difference between league and chapel

is that league is to form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support while chapel is 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

describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

league

English

(wikipedia league)

Etymology 1

(etyl) ligg, from (etyl) ligue, from (etyl) lega, from the verb legare, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group or association of cooperating members.
    • the League of Nations
  • * Denham
    • And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league , nor amity.
  • An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
    • My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League''' and the American '''League in baseball.
  • (informal) Rugby league.
    • Are you going to watch the league tonight?
    Derived terms
    * bush league * in a league of one's own * in league (with) * major league * minor league * non-league * out of one's league * seven-league boots

    Verb

    (leagu)
  • To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
    • (South)

    Etymology 2

    From (m), possibly from (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
  • * M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
    • Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.''
  • A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

    • References

    * Online Etymology, league * Middle English Dictionary, lege

    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)

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