Marina vs Bay - What's the difference?
marina | bay |
A harbour for small boats.
(obsolete) A berry.
, a shrub of the family Lauraceae , having dark green leaves and berries.
The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
The leaf of this or certain other species of shrub, used as a herb.
* Trumbull
(US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
A kind of mahogany obtained from (Campeche) in Mexico.
(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
*
, title= A bank or dam to keep back water.
An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
(nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
(rail transport) A bay platform.
Shortened form of bay window.
The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
(by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
(figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
* (rfdate) I. Taylor
To howl.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
A horse of this color.
As nouns the difference between marina and bay
is that marina is a harbour for small boats while bay is a berry.As proper nouns the difference between marina and bay
is that marina is {{given name|female|from=Latin}} while Bay is a region of Somalia.As a verb bay is
to howl.As an adjective bay is
of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).marina
English
Noun
(en noun)- It's a peaceful marina with not too many boats and yachts.
Anagrams
* * ----bay
English
(wikipedia bay)Etymology 1
From (etyl) baye, baie, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes .
- The patriot's honours and the poet's bays .
Synonyms
* bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurelDerived terms
* bayberry * bay laurel * bay leaf * bay rum * bay rum tree * bay tree * red bay * sweet bayEtymology 2
From (etyl) baie, from baia.Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
Synonyms
* (body of water) gulfDerived terms
* California bayEtymology 3
From (etyl) baie, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
Derived terms
* bay platform * bay window * bomb bay * buggy bay * loading bayEtymology 4
From (etyl) bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form (etyl) baier, abaier.Noun
(en noun)- Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay .
- The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.
Derived terms
* at bayVerb
(en verb)- The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed .
- to bay the bear
- (Shakespeare)
