different between gorge vs crater

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gôj, IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (General American) enPR: gôrj, IPA^(key): /???d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Etymology 1

From Middle English gorge (“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), a borrowing from Old French gorge (“throat”) (modern French gorge (“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin *gorga, *gurga, from Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g?erh?- (“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa (“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia (“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”).

Noun

gorge (plural gorges)

1. (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
2. (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
3. Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
4. (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
5. (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
6. (architecture, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery.
7. (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
8. (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

   Synonym: canyon
9. (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

Usage notes

• (food taken into the gullet or stomach): A person's gorge is said to rise (that is, they feel as if they are about to vomit) if they feel irritated or nauseated.

Derived terms

Related terms

• gorget
• gorgeted

Translations

Etymology 2

The verb is derived from Middle English gorgen (“to eat greedily; to gorge”), a borrowing from Old French gorger, gorgier (modern French gorger (“to eat greedily; to gorge”)), from gorge (“throat”); see further at etymology 1.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

gorge (third-person singular simple present gorges, present participle gorging, simple past and past participle gorged)

1. (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [+ on (object)]
2. (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
3. (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.

   Synonyms: sate, stuff
4. (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

   Synonym: engorge

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

gorge (plural gorges)

1. An act of gorging.

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of gorge(ous); originally British slang.

Adjective

gorge (comparative more gorge, superlative most gorge)

1. (slang) Gorgeous.

Notes

References

Further reading

• canyon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gorge (fortification) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gorge (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gorge at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Grego, Rogge, grego

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Etymology 1

From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, related to Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”).

Noun

gorge f (plural gorges)

1. throat
2. breast
3. gorge

Derived terms

Related terms

• ingurgiter
• régurgiter

Descendants

• ? Catalan: gorja
• ? Italian: gorgia
• ? Portuguese: gorja
• ? Spanish: gorja

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gorge

1. first-person singular present indicative of gorger
2. third-person singular present indicative of gorger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of gorger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of gorger
5. second-person singular imperative of gorger

Further reading

• “gorge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rd?e

Noun

gorge f

1. plural of gorgia

Middle French

Noun

gorge f (plural gorges)

1. (anatomy) throat

Norman

Etymology

From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, related to Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gorge f (plural gorges)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) throat

Derived terms

• bigorgi (“to slit a throat”)

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin gurga, related to Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”).

Noun

gorge f (oblique plural gorges, nominative singular gorge, nominative plural gorges)

1. throat

Descendants

• French: gorge
  • ? Catalan: gorja
  • ? Italian: gorgia
  • ? Portuguese: gorja
  • ? Spanish: gorja
• ? Galician: gorxa

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