different between crater vs palimpsest

English

Etymology 1

First coined 1613, from Latin cr?t?r (“basin”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(r)

Noun

crater (plural craters)

1. (astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. [from 1831]

   Synonym: astrobleme

2. (geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. [from 1610s]
3. The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]
4. (informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
5. (historical) Alternative spelling of krater (“vessel for mixing water and wine”)
   • 1941, Louis MacNeice, The March of the 10,000:

     The people of those parts lived in underground houses - more of dug-outs - along with their goats and sheep and they had great craters full of wine, barley-wine, that they drank through reeds.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

See also

• machtesh
• caldera

Translations

References

• crater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)

1. To form craters in a surface.
2. To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.

   Synonyms: implode, hollow out

3. (snowboarding) To crash or fall.

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.t??/

Noun

crater (plural craters)

1. (Scotland, Ireland) Alternative form of creature.
   • 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

     Then why not stop for fellow-craters -- going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?

Usage notes

This term is still commonly used in speech but rarely appears in modern writing.

Anagrams

• Carter, arrect, carter, tracer

Latin

Alternative forms

• cr?t?ra

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r, “mixingbowl, wassail-bowl”), from ????????? (keránnumi, “to mix, to mingle, to blend”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kra?.te?r/, [?k?ä?t?e?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kra.ter/, [?k???t??r]

Noun

cr?t?r m (genitive cr?t?ris or cr?t?ros); third declension

1. A basin or bowl for water or for mixing.
2. The opening of a volcano.

Declension

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).

Descendants

• ? English: crater
• ? Finnish: krateeri
• ? French: cratère
• ? German: Krater
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ???????
• ? Russian: ??????? (kráter)
• ? Spanish: cráter

References

• crater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crater in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crater in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• crater in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From French cratère

Noun

crater n (plural cratere)

1. crater

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin palimps?stus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos, “scraped again”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?mps?st/

Noun

palimpsest (plural palimpsests)

1. A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
2. (archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
3. (astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
4. (geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
5. (computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.
6. (cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
7. Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
   • 2005, Patrick Radden Keefe, Chatter:

     Miraculously, the Stasi's record of Garton Ash's years in Berlin remained intact, and in his extraordinary book The File he recalls going back to Berlin, sifting through the material, and piecing together those years for himself. The result is a palimpsest of memories, observations recorded by informants and agents, and the recollections in his own diaries at that time.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:palimpsest.

Synonyms

• codex rescriptus

Derived terms

• palimpsestic

Translations

Verb

palimpsest (third-person singular simple present palimpsests, present participle palimpsesting, simple past and past participle palimpsested)

1. To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
2. On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.

   Typically refers to a multi-layered work, e.g.: new ads covering old on a roadside sign.

See also

• pentimento

Anagrams

• past simple, simple past, simple-past

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Noun

palimpsest m

1. palimpsest

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Noun

palimpsest c (singular definite palimpsesten, plural indefinite palimpsester)

1. palimpsest

Declension

References

• “palimpsest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Noun

palimpsest m inan

1. palimpsest

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French palimpseste, from Latin palimps?stus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos, “scraped again”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pa.limp?sest]

Noun

palimpsest n (plural palimpseste)

1. palimpsest

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal?mpsest/
• Hyphenation: pa?lim?psest

Noun

palìmpsest m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. palimpsest

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palimpsé?st/

Noun

palimps??st m inan

1. palimpsest

Inflection