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Literature vs Pottery - What's the difference?

literature | pottery |

As nouns the difference between literature and pottery

is that literature is the body of all written works while pottery is fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.

As an adjective pottery is

having to do with pottery.

literature

English

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Alternative forms

* literatuer (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The body of all written works.
  • The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
  • All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
  • *
  • The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
  • Written fiction of a high standard.
  • However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature , because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008

    Meronyms

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    pottery

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed
  • The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
  • (countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made
  • I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.
  • The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay
  • was skilled at pottery .

    Synonyms

    * ceramic * ceramics * earthenware

    Hyponyms

    * porcelain, china

    See also

    * stoneware * terracotta

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having to do with pottery.
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  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}