Month vs Mountain - What's the difference?
month | mountain |
(en noun) The plural is occasionally seen as month (unchanged)
A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. In the Gregorian calendar there are twelve months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21582498-america-has-changed-way-it-measures-gdp-boundary-problems Boundary problems]
, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month .}}
A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 29, author=Jon Smith, work=BBC Sport
, title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15014632.stm Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers]
, passage=With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.}}
(obsolete, in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.234:
A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 304.8 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger mountains.
A large amount.
(figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Phil Dawkes
, title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom
, work=BBC Sport
As nouns the difference between month and mountain
is that month is a period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. In the Gregorian calendar there are twelve months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December while mountain is a large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 304.8 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger mountains.month
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(wikipedia month)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
- Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months .
See also
* quarter * week * year *Statistics
* 1000 English basic wordsmountain
English
Noun
(en noun)- Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
- We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains .
- There's still a mountain of work to do.
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