Mountain vs Syntaxis - What's the difference?
mountain | syntaxis |
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.
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(obsolete, grammar) Syntax.
(geology) A convergence of mountain ranges, or geological folds, towards a single point.
"The melting and assimilation of the country rock" [The Penguin Dictionary of Geology, D.G.A. Whitten and J.R.V. Brooks]
(crystallography) Syntaxy.
As nouns the difference between mountain and syntaxis
is that 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 while syntaxis is syntax.mountain
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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