Nave vs Rave - What's the difference?
nave | rave |
(architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
* , chapter=5
, title= A hub of a wheel.
* --William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act II, Scene 2
(obsolete) The navel.
* William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene 1:
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
(uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music associated with rave parties.
* 2009 , Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
* Addison
* Macaulay
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. § 5.
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on .
* Byron
(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
To attend a rave (dance party).
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between nave and rave
is that nave is (human) hand while rave is an enthusiastic review (such as of a play) or rave can be one of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.As a verb rave is
to wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.nave
English
Etymology 1
Ultimately from (etyl) , via a Romance source.Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) nafu, from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- 'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,
- In general synod take away her power;
- Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
- And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven...
- Till he faced the slave;/Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,/And fix'd his head upon our battlements
Anagrams
* * * * English terms with multiple etymologies ----rave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops
Verb
(rav)- Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
- The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
- A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
- He raved about her beauty.
- The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
- (Spenser)