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Levee vs Delta - What's the difference?

levee | delta |

As nouns the difference between levee and delta

is that levee is an embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi while delta is the fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.

As a verb levee

is to keep within a channel by means of levees.

As a proper noun Delta is

a CDP in Alabama.

As an acronym DELTA is

Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults, an advanced qualification to teach English, higher than the CELTA, accredited by the University of Cambridge.

levee

English

(wikipedia levee)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
  • (US) The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field.
  • (US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
  • Synonyms
    * (embankment) dike, floodwall

    Verb

  • (US) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
  • to levee a river

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
  • * Gray
  • the sun's levee
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 414:
  • The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox
  • A reception of visitors held after getting up.
  • A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1992 , year_published=1993 , author= Hilary Mantel , title=A Place of Greater Safety citation , isbn=9780689121685 , page=195 , passage=At the King's levee on the morning of the 13th, Philippe was first ignored; then asked by His Majesty (rudely) what he wanted; then told, ‘Get back where you came from.’ }}

    Verb

  • To attend the levee or levees of.
  • * Young
  • He levees all the great.
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    delta

    English

    (wikipedia delta)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet .
  • A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
  • The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet.
  • (mathematics) The symbol .
  • (computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect, compare with epsilon.
  • This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta .
  • (computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.
  • When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas .
  • (surveying) The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
  • A type of cargo bike that has one wheel in front and two in back.
  • Derived terms

    * delta connection * delta iron * delta metal * delta particle * delta wing

    See also

    * deltoid *

    Anagrams

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