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Spindrift vs Billow - What's the difference?

spindrift | billow |

As nouns the difference between spindrift and billow

is that spindrift is sea spray blown from the tops of waves by the wind while billow is a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.

As a verb billow is

to surge or roll in billows.

spindrift

English

Noun

  • sea spray blown from the tops of waves by the wind
  • snow blown by the wind at sea

    • billow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
  • * Cowper
    • whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll
  • * 18?? , :
    • And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
  • * 1922 , :
    • Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To surge or roll in billows
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
    • During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains,
  • To swell out or bulge

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