Quicksand vs Earthquake - What's the difference?
quicksand | earthquake |
Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts
Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
As nouns the difference between quicksand and earthquake
is that quicksand is wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.quicksand
English
(wikipedia quicksand)Noun
- My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand , and the more I struggled the more I sank into it.
- The quicksands of youth...
earthquake
English
(wikipedia earthquake)Noun
(en noun)- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.