Ravine vs Brook - What's the difference?
ravine | brook |
A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=3 To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
(label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
*Bible, (w) viii. 7
*:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
*
*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
As nouns the difference between ravine and brook
is that ravine is a deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water while brook is a body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.As a verb brook is
to use; enjoy; have the full employment of.As a proper noun Brook is
{{surname|from=Middle English}} for someone living by a brook.ravine
English
("ravine" on Wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}
Derived terms
* ravine-buck * ravined * ravine-deerSee also
* canyon * gorge * gulley, gully * valleyAnagrams
* ----brook
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
- Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.