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Repose vs Lodge - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between repose and lodge

is that repose is rest, sleep while lodge is a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

As verbs the difference between repose and lodge

is that repose is to lie at rest; to rest while lodge is to be firmly fixed in a specified position.

repose

English

Noun

  • (dated) rest, sleep
  • * 1908 ,
  • Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .
  • *
  • You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?
  • quietness, ease; peace, calmness
  • * Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10
  • So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
  • (geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

  • To lie at rest; to rest.
  • * Chapman
  • Within a thicket I reposed .
  • To lie; to be supported.
  • trap reposing on sand
  • To lay, to set down.
  • * Chapman
  • But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
  • * Woodward
  • Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.
  • To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
  • To reside in something.
  • (figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
  • * I. Taylor
  • It is upon these that the soul may repose .

    lodge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  • Porter's]] or [[caretaker, caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
  • A local chapter of some fraternities]], such as [[freemason, freemasons.
  • (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
  • A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  • A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  • A den or cave.
  • The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  • (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
  • (Raymond)
  • A collection of objects lodged together.
  • * De Foe
  • the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
  • A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
  • The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges , that is, of about a thousand individuals.

    Verb

    (lodg)
  • To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
  • I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
    The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
  • To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
  • The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
  • To stay in any place or shelter.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Stay and lodge by me this night.
  • * Milton
  • Something holy lodges in that breast.
  • To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  • To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  • To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  • To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
  • The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge .

    Derived terms

    * lodger * lodging * lodgement

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