What is the difference between volcanic and earthquake?
volcanic | earthquake |
Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.
Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.
Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 556:
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
As a adjective volcanic
is of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.As a noun earthquake is
a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.volcanic
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Adjective
(-)- With that the system was complete, and ready to have its disastrous effect on Martin Luther's volcanic temper.
Derived terms
* volcanically * volcanicityearthquake
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(wikipedia earthquake)Noun
(en noun)- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.