Swale vs Ravine - What's the difference?
swale | ravine |
A low tract of moist or marshy land.
A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
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A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
(melt and waste away, or singe)
A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
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As nouns the difference between swale and ravine
is that swale is a low tract of moist or marshy land while ravine is a deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.As a verb swale
is alternative form of nodot=yes lang=en (melt and waste away, or singe.swale
English
Etymology 1
, from (etyl), "shade", perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to (etyl) svalrNoun
(en noun)- Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left.
Etymology 2
See sweal.Verb
(swal)Anagrams
*ravine
English
("ravine" on Wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}