Shelter vs Hideaway - What's the difference?
shelter | hideaway |
A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
* Dryden
* Southey
To take cover.
a hiding place, somewhere you can go to get away from other people
Capable of being stored out of sight when not in use.
* 1980 , Making of America Project, House Beautiful: Volume 122
* 2006 , Dr Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw (page 53)
As nouns the difference between shelter and hideaway
is that shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something while hideaway is a hiding place, somewhere you can go to get away from other people.As a verb shelter
is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.As an adjective hideaway is
capable of being stored out of sight when not in use.shelter
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
Derived terms
* bus shelterVerb
(en verb)- Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
- You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
- During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.
hideaway
English
Noun
(en noun)- This weekend, let's find some romantic hideaway on the coast.
Adjective
(-)- Furnishings by Stanley Furniture Co. include a trundle bed with hideaway mattress that provides space for two overnight guests.
- Thomas Jefferson, who held the first United States patent on a hideaway bed, devised a system of elevating and securing the bed to the ceiling.