Rifled vs Rifted - What's the difference?
rifled | rifted |
(firearms) Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
(rifle)
(rift)
A chasm or fissure.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 130:
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To form a .
To cleave; to rive; to split.
* Wordsworth
As verbs the difference between rifled and rifted
is that rifled is (rifle) while rifted is (rift).As an adjective rifled
is (firearms) having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.rifled
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Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* smoothbore * unrifledVerb
(head)rifted
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Verb
(head)rift
English
(wikipedia rift)Etymology 1
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish/Norwegian '' 'breach', Old Norse ''rífa 'to tear'. More at rive.Noun
(en noun)- My marriage is in trouble, the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
Verb
(en verb)- to rift an oak
- To dwell these rifted rocks between.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rypta.Etymology 3
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)