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Meadow vs Paddock - What's the difference?

meadow | paddock |

As nouns the difference between meadow and paddock

is that meadow is a field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river while paddock is (archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.

As a proper noun Meadow

is a town in Texas.

As a verb paddock is

to provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.

meadow

English

(wikipedia meadow)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
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  • Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
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    Derived terms

    * catch-meadow * meadow barley * meadow beauty * meadow bright * meadow buttercup * meadow clary * meadow clover * meadow cranesbill * meadow cress * meadow dermatitis * meadow fern * meadow fescue * meadow foxtail * meadow frog * meadow golden * meadow grass * meadow horsetail * meadow jumping mouse * meadow leek * meadow lily * meadow mouse * meadow muffin * meadow mushroom * meadow nematode * meadow ore * meadow oxeye * meadow pea * meadow pink * meadow pipit * meadow rue * meadow saffron * meadow salsify * meadow saxifrage * meadow spikemoss * meadow spittlebug * meadow starling * meadow thistle * meadow violet * meadow vole * meadowage * meadowed * meadower * meadowing * meadowish * meadowland * meadowlark * meadowless * meadowsweet * meadow-wink * meadowy * queen of the meadow * water meadow

    paddock

    English

    (wikipedia paddock)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) paddok, equivalent to .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.
  • * Wycliffe
    • Soothly if thou wilt not deliver, lo! I shall smite all thy terms with paddocks . (Exodus 8:2)
  • * Spenser
    • The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Paddock calls (Macbeth 1.1.10)
    Derived terms
    * paddock pipe * paddock stone * paddock stool

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of (etyl) parrok, . Related to (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
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    • the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.
  • An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
  • Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
  • (motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
    • Derived terms
    * heifer paddock * long paddock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.
    • English words suffixed with -ock ----