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Reif vs Seif - What's the difference?

reif | seif |

As nouns the difference between reif and seif

is that reif is ring or reif can be hoar frost (cover of minute ice crystals on a surface ) while seif is aids.

reif

English

Alternative forms

* rief

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Noun

(-)
  • Robbery.
  • * , a letter, recorded in The History of Scotland (John Hill Burton, 1873), volume 3, page 109:
  • The opposition, which, as we shall see, was headed by Archbishop Beaton, protested against the "daily slaughters, murders, reifs , thefts, depredations, and heavy attemptates, that are daily and hourly committed within this realm in fault of justice."
  • * Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles :
  • meaning to live by reif of other mennes goodes, wherein they have no manner of propertie.
  • * 1814 , Walter Scott, Waverley :
  • the lawless thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands, had been in fellowship together by reason of their surnames for the committing of divers thefts, reifs , and herships.
  • * 1898 , Robert Borland, Border Raids and Reivers , page 42:
  • In the year 1567, in the first Parliament of James VI., an important Act was passed, entitled "Anent Theft and Receipt of Theft, Taking of Prisoners by Thieves, or Bands for Ransoms, and Punishment of the same." It relates especially to the thieves and "broken men" [who] commit daily "thefts, ' reifs , herschips, murders, and fire raisings" upon the peaceable subjects of the country.
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    seif

    English

    Alternative forms

    * saif

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.
  • * 1954 , Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel , Volume 4, page 196,
  • Such seifs have a somewhat zig-zag form instead of a fairly straight line.
    On the top of seifs' small transverse dunelets are very often found, and these may be likened to almost straightened-out barchans.On the top of the ' seif they form a wave-like pattern with a fairly defined "wavelength".
  • * 1973 , Ralph Alger Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes , page 224,
  • Though the actual transition forms suggested in Fig. 76 do exist and have been examined by the author, the above tentative explanation of the growth of a seif dune chain should certainly not be taken as implying that all such chains have originated as barchans.
  • * 1980 , P. Turner, Continental Red Beds , page 80,
  • Seifs are longitudinal forms elongated parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 26, Bruno Andreotti et al., Giant aeolian dune size determined by the average depth of the atmospheric boundary layer, Nature, url=, doi=10.1038/nature07787, volume=457, issue=7233, pages=1120-1123
  • , passage=Tsoar, H. Dynamic processes acting on a longitudinal (seif ) sand dune . }}

    Synonyms

    * longitudinal dune

    See also

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