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Loge vs Logy - What's the difference?

loge | logy |

As a verb loge

is .

As an adjective logy is

slow to respond or react; lethargic.

As a noun logy is

terms formed with the -logy suffix.

loge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A booth or stall.
  • The lodge of a concierge.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 70:
    • About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge , asking if the doctor was in.
  • An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
  • * '>citation
    • In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.
  • An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
  • * '>citation
    • Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.

    Anagrams

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    logy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Attested from the 19th century, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Dutch log "heavy, dull".

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slow to respond or react; lethargic.
  • * 1910 , " Duck Eats Yeast," The Yakima Herald :
    • Perkins discovered his prize duck in a logy condition.
  • * 1956 . “I was still logy with sleep; I shook my head to try to clear it”. Double Star .
    • The steering seems logy , you have to turn the wheel well before you want to turn.

    Etymology 2

    Nominalization of the -logy suffix.

    Noun

    (logies)
  • Terms formed with the -logy suffix.
  • * 1856 , Joseph Young, Demonology; or, the Scripture doctrine of Devils , page 372:
    • The many Logies and Isms that have lately come into vogue.
  • * 1891 , (Thomas Hardy), (w, Tess of the d'Urbervilles) , :
    • The perception arrested him less when he reflected that what are called advanced ideas are really in great part but the latest fashion in definition—a more accurate expression, by words in logy and ism, of sensations which men and women have vaguely grasped for centuries.