Porch vs Parch - What's the difference?
porch | parch |
(architecture) A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
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A portico; a covered walk.
To burn the surface of, to scorch.
To roast, as dry grain.
* Bible, Leviticus xxiii. 14
To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
(colloquial) To make thirsty.
(archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in , a type of mushy peas ).
To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
The condition of being parched.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 64:
As nouns the difference between porch and parch
is that porch is a covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof while parch is the condition of being parched.As a verb parch is
to burn the surface of, to scorch.porch
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- The sun today could parch cement.
- Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
- The patient's mouth is parched from fever.
- We're parched , hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
- The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.
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(parches)- Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].