Resort vs Peal - What's the difference?
resort | peal |
A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities]] such as [[lodging, lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
* Milton
To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
* Clarendon
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To fall back; to revert.
* Sir M. Hale
To make one's way, go (to).
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
An act of sorting again.
* 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer , Volume 16:
(obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
* Francis Bacon
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
* 1883:
* Hayward
* Shakespeare
* Byron
A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
The changes rung on a set of bells.
To sound with a peal or peals.
* 1864: , Christmas Bells
* 1939: , In My Merry Oldsmobile
* 2006:
To utter or sound loudly.
* J. Barlow
To assail with noise.
* Milton
To resound; to echo.
* Longfellow
(UK, dialect) To pour out.
(obsolete) To appeal.
In obsolete terms the difference between resort and peal
is that resort is active power or movement; spring while peal is to appeal.As nouns the difference between resort and peal
is that resort is a place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment while peal is a loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.As verbs the difference between resort and peal
is that resort is to have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration while peal is to sound with a peal or peals.resort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- to have resort to violence
- Join with me to forbid him her resort .
- far from all resort of mirth
Verb
(en verb)- The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
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- The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
- The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.
Derived terms
* last resortEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- "If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.
Etymology 3
(etyl) ressort.Noun
(en noun)- Some know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks, I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal' after ' peal
- a fair peal of artillery
- whether those peals of praise be his or no
- and a deep thunder, peal' on ' peal , afar
Verb
(en verb)- Then pealed the bells more loud and deep...
- To the church we'll swiftly steal, then our wedding bells will peal ,
- You can go as far you like with me, in my merry Oldsmobile.
New York Times
- The bell pealed 20 times, clanging into the dusk as Mr. Bush’s motorcade drove off.
- The warrior's name, / Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame.
- Nor was his ear less pealed .
- And the whole air pealed / With the cheers of our men.
- (Halliwell)
- (Spencer)
