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Yesterday vs Camping - What's the difference?

yesterday | camping |

As nouns the difference between yesterday and camping

is that yesterday is the day immediately before today; one day ago while camping is the recreational activity of.

As an adverb yesterday

is on the day before today.

As a verb camping is

.

yesterday

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The day immediately before today; one day ago.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
    • , title= , passage=Yesterday , upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
  • The (recent) past, often disparaging.
  • * 1606 (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth) , 5.5
    • All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday , of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}

    Usage notes

    * The term yesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. "all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us."

    Derived terms

    * born yesterday

    Adverb

    (-)
  • On the day before today
  • As soon as possible

    • Synonyms

    * the last day (Ireland )

    Antonyms

    * tomorrow

    Related terms

    * yester * yesterevening * yestern * yesternight * yesternoon * yestersol * yesteryear * yestreen

    See also

    * hesternal * today * tomorrow night * tonight * last night * nudiustertian English pro-forms English temporal location adverbs 1000 English basic words

    camping

    English

    (wikipedia camping)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The recreational activity of .
    • Camping is a favorite summer activity.
  • The act of setting up a camp.
  • * 1848 , The North British Review (volume 9, page 17)
    • In some quarters, indeed, it was different — the troops bivouacked in many places. It was a strange and an unpleasing sight to see these campings in the heart of a city, yet it was picturesque in the extreme.

    Derived terms

    * (l)