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Prominence vs Welt - What's the difference?

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Prominence is a related term of welt.


As nouns the difference between prominence and welt

is that prominence is the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent while welt is a raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.

As a verb welt is

to cause to have welts, to beat.

prominence

Noun

  • The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
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  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • Relative importance.
  • A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
  • (lb) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
  • welt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.
  • (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
  • A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
  • In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
  • In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
  • In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
  • (heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to have welts, to beat.
  • To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.