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Sprite vs Elve - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between sprite and elve

is that sprite is a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition while elve is an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.

sprite

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Noun

(wikipedia sprite) (en noun)
  • (mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition.
  • *1803 , William Blake,
  • *:He who torments the chafer's sprite
  • *:Weaves a bower in endless night.
  • (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
  • The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
  • (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
  • An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
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    elve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
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  • Sir Olof he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve -dance gay.

    See also

    * blue starter * bluejet * gigantic jet * gnome * pixie * red sprite * sprelve * sprite halo * sprite * transient luminous events * troll * upward lightning ----