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Overland vs Surface - What's the difference?

overland | surface |

As nouns the difference between overland and surface

is that overland is a trip by land between the UK and the Indian Sub-continent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa while surface is the overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.

As an adjective overland

is by or across land, especially of travel.

As an adverb overland

is over, across, or by land.

As a verb surface is

to provide something with a surface.

overland

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (travel) a trip by land between the UK and the Indian Sub-continent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • by or across land, especially of travel
  • *1609 , , III.v
  • *:So, sir. I desire of you
  • *:A conduct overland to Milford Haven.
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • Over, across, or by land.
  • * 1589 , (ed.), Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century , T. Richards (1856), page 317:
  • To prevent this, he practised that none of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters.
  • * 1786 , , reproduced in Charles Ross (ed.), Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis , volume 1, second edition, John Murray (1859), page 247:
  • The packet that was coming to us overland , and that left England in July, was cut off by the wild Arabs between Aleppo and Bussora.
  • * 2008 , , Connecting Histories in Afghanistan , Stanford University Press (2011), ISBN 978-0-8047-7411-6, page 57:
  • It is unclear whether the Peshin sayyid traveled overland' or by ship to Bombay from where he accompanied the goods by sea to Karachi or one of the smaller ports in Sind, then ' overland to Bela, Kelat, Qandahar, Kabul, and Bukhara.

    surface

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
  • The outside hull of a tangible object.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The climate of Tibet: Pole-land , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.}}
  • (lb) Outward or external appearance.
  • :
  • *(Vicesimus Knox) (1752-1821)
  • *:Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface .
  • *
  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
  • The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
  • (lb) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
  • :(Stocqueler)
  • Synonyms

    * overside * superfice (archaic)

    Derived terms

    * surface mail * surficial

    Verb

  • To provide something with a surface.
  • To apply a surface to something.
  • To rise to the surface.
  • To come out of hiding.
  • For information or facts to become known.
  • To work a mine near the surface.
  • To appear or be found.