Penetrate vs Voyage - What's the difference?
penetrate | voyage |
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
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(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
* Ray
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
* M. Arnold
To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)
A long journey, especially by ship.
* J. Fletcher
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.
* Francis Bacon
To go on a long journey.
* Wordsworth
As verbs the difference between penetrate and voyage
is that penetrate is to enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce while voyage is to go on a long journey.As a noun voyage is
a long journey, especially by ship.penetrate
English
(Penetration)Verb
(penetrat)- Light penetrates darkness.
- I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
- things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate
- to penetrate one's heart with pity
- The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* penetration * penetrableExternal links
* * * ----voyage
English
(wikipedia voyage)Noun
(en noun)- I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest.
- All the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
- Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them.
Synonyms
* adventure * exploration * expedition * excursion * journey * tour * vacationDerived terms
* maiden voyageVerb
(voyag)- A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.