Pier vs Levee - What's the difference?
pier | levee |
A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
(US, nautical) A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided.
A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
(architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof.
An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
(US) The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field.
(US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
(US) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
(obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
* Gray
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 414:
A reception of visitors held after getting up.
A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
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To attend the levee or levees of.
* Young
As nouns the difference between pier and levee
is that pier is a raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty while levee is an embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the mississippi or levee can be (obsolete) the act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.As a verb levee is
(us|transitive) to keep within a channel by means of levees or levee can be to attend the levee or levees of.pier
English
(wikipedia pier)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* abutment pier * pier glass * pierlike * pier tableSee also
* jetty * mole * wharfAnagrams
* * ----levee
English
(wikipedia levee)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (embankment) dike, floodwallVerb
- to levee a river
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the sun's levee
- The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox
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Verb
- He levees all the great.