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Adobe vs Mud - What's the difference?

adobe | mud |

As nouns the difference between adobe and mud

is that adobe is an unburnt brick dried in the sun while mud is a mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.

As an acronym MUD is

an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.

As a verb mud is

to make muddy, dirty.

adobe

English

(wikipedia adobe)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
    • Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
    • Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
    • “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
  • * (rfdate) Star Wars script
    • The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
  • * 26 May 2003 , Roger Angell, in The New Yorker ,
    • The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
  • A house made of adobe brick.
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever

    Synonyms

    * mudbrick (definition 1)

    Anagrams

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    References

    * adobe, Online Etymology Dictionary English terms derived from Arabic English terms derived from Spanish ----

    mud

    English

    Acronym

    (Acronym) (head)
  • (video game genre, online gaming) An interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.

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