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Puddle vs Rafting - What's the difference?

puddle | rafting |

As nouns the difference between puddle and rafting

is that puddle is a small pool of water, usually on a path or road while rafting is the sport of guiding a raft while descending a river, especially through rapids known as white water rafting.

As verbs the difference between puddle and rafting

is that puddle is to form a puddle while rafting is .

puddle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
  • And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
  • * 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:
  • searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle , that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.
  • A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
  • Verb

    (puddl)
  • To form a puddle.
  • To play or splash in a puddle.
  • To process iron by means of puddling.
  • To line a canal with puddle (clay).
  • To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
  • To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
  • To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
  • * Shakespeare
  • Some unhatched practice / Hath puddled his clear spirit.

    rafting

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (-)
  • The sport of guiding a raft while descending a river, especially through rapids known as white water rafting.
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