Serf vs Seif - What's the difference?
serf | seif |
A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
(strategy games) A worker unit.
A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.
* 1954 , Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel , Volume 4,
* 1973 , Ralph Alger Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes ,
* 1980 , P. Turner, Continental Red Beds ,
* {{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 . }}
As nouns the difference between serf and seif
is that serf is a partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights while seif is aids.serf
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (strategy games) peasant, peon, villagerDerived terms
* serfage * serfdom * serfhood * serfish * serfismSee also
* slaveAnagrams
* ----seif
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Alternative forms
* saifNoun
(en noun)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".
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.
page 80,
- Seifs are longitudinal forms elongated parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
