Khaki vs Olive - What's the difference?
khaki | olive |
A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
* 1899 , Rudyard Kipling, The Absent-Minded Beggar
Khaki green, a dull green colour.
* 1921 ,
* 2007 , Yuji Matsuki, American Fighters Over Europe: Colors & Markings of USAAF Fighters in WWII, page 4, ISBN 0890247110.
* 2010 , Martin Windrow, French Foreign Legion: Infantry and Cavalry since 1945 , page 52, ISBN 1855326213.
* Op. cit. , page 56
A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
(South Africa, slang) A British person (from the colour of the uniform of British troops).
An evergreen tree, , cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
The wood of the olive tree.
A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.
(anatomy) An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
A component of a plumbing compression joint; a ring which is placed between the nut and the pipe and compressed during fastening to provide a seal.
(cookery) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.
Any shell of the genus and allied genera; so called from the shape.
(UK, dialect) An oystercatcher, a shore bird.
As nouns the difference between khaki and olive
is that khaki is a dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust while olive is an evergreen tree, species: Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.As adjectives the difference between khaki and olive
is that khaki is dust-coloured; of the colour of dust while olive is of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.As a proper noun Olive is
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English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- When you've shouted "Rule Britannia", when you've sung "God Save The Queen",
When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth;
Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine
For a gentleman in khaki ordered South?
War work of the Bureau of Standards, no. 46, page 54.
- The English Government for a long time has used a type of pigmented dope cover, khaki colored by iron pigments and lampblack, which is called P. C. 10.
- At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army Air Service painted everything khaki'. This ' khaki was practically the same as British PC10 and can be considered the basis of the later olive drab color.
- In these notes we have used the British rather than the US terms for colours: i.e. 'khaki' here means the drab brown - US 'olive drab' - used for woolen uniforms and 'khaki drill' for the pale yellowish tan - US 'khaki' - used for lightweight summer/tropical dress.
- The very loose seroual trousers were made in both sand-khaki drill, and in winter-weight khaki wool for wear with the M1946 battledress blouse.
Derived terms
* khaki-tile * khaki greenSee also
* English terms derived from Urdu ----olive
English
(wikipedia olive)Noun
(en noun)- a beef olive
- olives of veal