Spate vs Plethora - What's the difference?
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A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
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A sudden rush or increase.
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(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
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(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.
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Spate is a related term of plethora.
As nouns the difference between spate and plethora
is that spate is while plethora is (usually|followed by of) an excessive amount or number; an abundance.spate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Only let your language match your subject, then it will be shapely and free; but take care all the time not to overwhelm your work in a spate of words to attain the fluency of Isaeus; and that it slip not out too freely, avoid the danger of Strada.
- The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent,
- And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring
- Stared at the spate . A slender-shafted Pine
- Lost footing, fell, and so was whirled away.
- At Odendaal, where he had hoped to cross, the river was in spate , the British flag waved from a post upon the further side, and a strong force of expectant Guardsmen eagerly awaited him there.
- The glacial drip was already in evidence, and every creek in roaring spate .
- At the edge of the burn, where the path turns downward, there is a patch of shingle washed up by some spate .
- He couldnae weel tell how - maybe it was the cauld to his feet - but it cam' in upon him wi' a spate that there was some connection between thir twa, an' that either or baith o' them were bogles.
- The spate of similar cases filed and decided by lower courts since our decision in Baker [v. Carr] amply shows that the problem of state legislative malapportionment is one that is perceived to exist in a large number of the States.
- A recent spate of controversies, including Chinese mineral giant Chinalco’s Rio Tinto bid and revelations of hushed meetings between the Chinese propaganda chief and Australian media bosses, have once again brought the issue of our deepening relationship with China to the fore.
Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
- He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
Quotations
* 1849 , *: I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent. * 1927 , (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction) *: Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries ..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German.Synonyms
* glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slewSee also
* myriadReferences
* “plethora]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
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