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Rivage vs Littoral - What's the difference?

rivage | littoral |

As nouns the difference between rivage and littoral

is that rivage is a coast, a shore while littoral is a shore.

As an adjective littoral is

of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.

rivage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A coast, a shore.
  • *:
  • *:Ryght soo departed Galahad / Percyual / and Bors with hym / and soo they rode thre dayes / and thenne they came to a Ryuage and fonde the shyp/ And whanne they cam to the borde / they fonde in the myddes the table of syluer / whiche they had lefte with the maymed kynge and the Sancgreal whiche was couerd with rede samyte
  • * 1892 , Michael Field, "The Death of Procris"
    • ...leaves have taken flight
    From yon
    Slim seedling-birch on the rivage, the flock
    Of herons has the quiet of solitude...
  • :(Spenser)
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical.
  • A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
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    littoral

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.

    • Usage notes

    Specifically refers to the water at the shore, rather than the land, particularly in the phrase littoral zone.

    Quotations

    "During his tenure, 'From the Sea' became the Navy-Marine Corps joint strategic concept, wherein the Navy and Marine Corps reoriented doctrinal focus toward littoral warfare." ? Semper Fidelis Memorandum for Retired Marines, Volume 58, No. 2

    Synonyms

    * (relating to the seashore) intertidal

    Coordinate terms

    * coastal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shore.
  • * 1921 , Sir Charles Eliot
    • ...these Chams belonged to the Malay-Polynesian group and their distribution along the littoral suggests that they were invaders from the sea...
  • The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=6 citation , passage=The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}

    Synonyms

    * (zone between high- and low-tide) intertidal zone, foreshore

    Related terms

    * lido

    Derived terms

    * circumlittoral * infralittoral * sublittoral * supralittoral

    References

    Anagrams

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