Peregrinate vs Hike - What's the difference?
peregrinate | hike |
To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
* 1824, [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=0KdiM6l-qJtop_tme0z&id=qDBHz6VonZEC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=peregrinating]
* 1935, G. de Purucker, The Esoteric Tradition, Part Two [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1417982810&id=xgoCsmI375EC&pg=PA765&lpg=PA765&dq=peregrinate&sig=pi0MJ50aG19SYuBfTLHF6TSE4nI]
* 2000, Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0618057005&id=uEdgwQQscQ4C&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=peregrinated&sig=sIIHoIBH24WcEvOT2azATLbmoAE]
To travel through a specific place.
* 1876, Edward S. Wheeler, Scheyichbi and the Strand [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1417920904&id=LCyGcTb-Af8C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=peregrinates&sig=JqFzQzvC5TOwqRCgiL9-NKEoQxI]
* 1913, Marguerite Pollard, “The Message of Edward Carpenter,” in Theosophist Magazine [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0766152537&id=zv1eXjb-TZMC&pg=PA829&lpg=PA829&dq=peregrinate&sig=1_9HjqBTaI9h-IRUQ5tbc4PXPR4]
* 2005, Jan Morris, The World: Travels 1950–2000 [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0393326489&id=zaTRIPsXsAkC&pg=PR13&lpg=PR13&dq=peregrinated&sig=HEyG3GEBaySv_3rdyw40qmcYvfA]
(rare) Peregrine; having traveled; foreign, exotic.
* c. 1595, Act V. Scene 1
* 1853, , My Novel [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0766107841&id=JIl0TtzfV1AC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=peregrinate&sig=s281SrXnzTuDfqRaNHrwolIg0sY]
* 1992, Julia Bolton Holloway, The Pilgrim and the Book [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0820420905&id=x0wYJrkBc08C&pg=RA2-PA130&lpg=RA2-PA130&dq=peregrinate&sig=kU3-LAXXKwKQb_GW3AnzXq8eryU]
A long walk.
An abrupt increase.
(American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher
To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
(American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
(nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
As verbs the difference between peregrinate and hike
is that peregrinate is to travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries while hike is to take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.As an adjective peregrinate
is (rare) peregrine; having traveled; foreign, exotic.As a noun hike is
a long walk.peregrinate
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . See also peregrine and pilgrim.Verb
- You know the inveterate peregrinating habits of the club, and can judge, from your own besetting propensity to change your residence monthly, how difficult it might prove to resist the temptation of traversing a soil that is still virgin, so far as the perambulating feet of the members of our fraternity are concerned.
- He came first to recognise, then finally to know and to feel, that just as the atoms of his own physical body peregrinate' by efflux and influx in and out of his body, so does he as a human ‘life-atom’ or human Monad ' peregrinate by unceasing influx and efflux in and out of the regular series of his earth-lives which succeed one another uninterruptedly during his sojourn in a Planetary Round on this globe Earth of the planetary chain, and much, very much, more.
- As their brood grew, Annie and Thomas Barnacle peregrinated through a tight circle of tenements and small houses at shabby addresses in the heart of Galway: Abbeygate Street, Raleigh Row, Newtownsmyth.
- History records no popular tumult, except of tongues, about the matter, but Jesse Hand never fully regained the regard of some people, and jealousy and distrust, like a curse, followed his new-fangled equipage; and though he and his generation are long since dead, yet the writer hath knowledge of traditions that, still drawn by attenuated and discouraged equines, a very Wandering Jew of vehicles, Jesse Hand’s carriage still peregrinates , at a toilsome pace, the interminable, sandy, woodland roads of Jersey.
- It is no longer hindered by any pride of race and can truthfully declare its readiness to “peregrinate every condition of man—with equal joy the lowest.”
- Anyway, as fledgling and as veteran, as man and as woman, as journalist and as aspirant littérateur, throught my half-century I peregrinated the world and wrote about it.
Derived terms
* peregrination * peregrineEtymology 2
(etyl) , past participle of peregrinari.Adjective
(en adjective)- His humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate , as I may call it.
- Imagine this figure, grotesque, peregrinate , and to the eye of a peasant certainly diabolical, then perch it on the stile in the midst of those green English fields, and in sight of that primitive English village; there let it sit straddling, its long legs dangling down, a short German pipe emitting clouds from one corner of those sardonic lips, its dark eyes glaring through the spectacles full upon the Parson, yet askant upon Lenny Fairfield. Lenny Fairfield looked exceedingly frightened.
- Other apprentices on this pilgrimage have been the worldly Squire to the peregrinate' Knight to whom are juxtaposed the ' peregrinate Second Nun to the worldly Prioress.
hike
English
Noun
(en noun)- The tenants were not happy with the rent hike .
Verb
(hik)- Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
- She hiked her skirt up.