different between grove vs sulcus
grove
English
Etymology
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English gr?f, gr?fa (“grove; copse”); compare English groove. Related to Old English gr?f, gr?fe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”) and Old English gr?fa (“thicket”). More at greave.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????v/
- (US) IPA(key): /??o?v/
- Rhymes: -??v
Noun
grove (plural groves)
- A small forest.
- An orchard of fruit trees.
- (Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
- A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
Derived terms
Related terms
- mangrove
Translations
See also
- thicket
- copse
- spinney
Verb
grove (third-person singular simple present groves, present participle groving, simple past and past participle groved)
- To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
- 1841, R, Sapp, Orchard Lake, in L. L. Hamline (editor), The Ladies Repository, Volume 1, page 165,
- It is called "Orchard Lake," from the fact, that near the centre is an island embracing an area of about fifty acres of land, well groved with different kinds of shrubbery; and near the centre of this island stand a number of aged apple-trees, planted, perhaps, a century since by the hand of some Indian.
- 1822, Robert Chapman, The Topographical Picture of Glasgow in its Ancient and Modern State, 3rd Edition, page 195,
- The trees and shrubs are not arranged after any particular system, but are scattered or groved together in various parts of the garden.
- 1984, Queensland Botany Bulletin, Issue 3, Department of Primary Industries, page 82,
- Virtually recognizable groving occurs in some A. aneura associations in the west. Further east some diffuse groving may occur, but is difficult to recognize without the benefit of aerial photographs.
- 1841, R, Sapp, Orchard Lake, in L. L. Hamline (editor), The Ladies Repository, Volume 1, page 165,
- (forestry, of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
- 1842 February 5, The Gardeners Chronicle, page 86,
- In Herefordshire, especially on the northern and eastern sides, Oak timber abounds; and in many of the woods it is usual to have felling at periods varying from sixteen to twenty years; the straightest and handsomest are left for timber, or, as it is called, groved; and they are from time to time thinned, and a regular distance kept between them. The effect produced on these groved trees is, that from being exposed to air and sun, the rapidity of their growth is increased in bulk, height, and quality; and in sixty or eighty years they become valuable timber.
- 1842 February 5, The Gardeners Chronicle, page 86,
- To plough or gouge with lines.
- 1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138,
- Very frequently, however, to shorten the distance to the upper nurseries, where they[the ants] have to take the eggs, they project an arch of about ten inches in length, and half an inch in breadth, groved or worked into steps, on its upper surface, to allow of a more easy passage.
- 1841, New York State Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 2, page 14,
- The floor of first story and piazza to be laid with Georgia pine, in narrow courses planed, groved and tongued, and laid in the best manner.
- 1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138,
Synonyms
- (gouge with lines): groove
Anagrams
- Gover
Danish
Adjective
grove
- definite of grov
- plural of grov
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
grove
- Inflected form of grof
Middle English
Alternative forms
- grof, grave
Etymology
Inherited from Old English gr?f, gr?fa.
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /??r??v(?)/
- IPA(key): /??r??v(?)/
Noun
grove (plural groves or groven)
- grove ("small forest")
Descendants
- English: grove
- Scots: grave (obsolete)
- Yola: greve
References
- “gr?ve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-06.
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
grove
- definite singular of grov
- plural of grov
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
grove
- definite singular of grov
- plural of grov
grove From the web:
- what grove means
- what grover cleveland can teach
- what groove mean
- what grocery stores are open
- what grocery stores are open right now
- what grocery stores take apple pay
- what grocery stores are open today
- what grocery stores accept ebt
sulcus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sulcus (“a furrow made by a plow”). Doublet of sullow ("plough").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?l.k?s/
- Rhymes: -?lk?s
Noun
sulcus (plural sulci)
- (anatomy) A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue, especially that marking the convolutions of the surface of the brain.
- Synonym: fissure
- Coordinate term: gyrus
- Hyponyms: calcaneal sulcus, central sulcus, cingulate sulcus, coronal sulcus, cruciate sulcus, interlabial sulcus, intermammary sulcus, lacrimal sulcus, lateral sulcus, malleolar sulcus, postcentral sulcus, preauricular sulcus, precentral sulcus, radial sulcus, sagittal sulcus, sigmoid sulcus, sulcus ansatus, sulcus arteriae vertebralis, sulcus tubae auditivae, tympanic sulcus
- (planetology) A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process.
Derived terms
- pseudosulcus
- sulcal
- sulcate
Translations
References
- “sulcus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “sulcus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *solkos, from Proto-Indo-European *solk-o-s (“furrow”), *selk- (“to pull, drag”), whence also Old English sulh. Doublet of holcus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sul.kus/, [?s????k?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sul.kus/, [?sulkus]
Noun
sulcus m (genitive sulc?); second declension
- (agriculture) A furrow made by a plow.
- Synonyms: l?ra, porca
- (transferred sense):
- (agriculture) Ploughing.
- (of things resembling a furrow):
- A long, narrow trench; a ditch.
- (in general) A rut or track.
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- sulcus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sulcus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sulcus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- sulcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?[4], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN
sulcus From the web:
- what sulcus separates the temporal lobe
- what sulcus separates the frontal and parietal lobes
- what sulcus is surrounded by supramarginal gyrus
- what sulcus separates the parietal and temporal lobes
- what sulcus is surrounded by an angular gyrus
- what sulcus separates the precentral and postcentral gyri
- sulcus meaning
- what sulcus sign
you may also like
- grove vs sulcus
- analysed vs reported
- analysed vs analized
- analysed vs analysing
- analysed vs analyse
- analysed vs scrutinized
- analysed vs analyzed
- sampled vs extracted
- tested vs sampled
- sampler vs sampled
- sampled vs samples
- sample vs sampled
- simpled vs sampled
- sampled vs samplable
- sampled vs unsampled
- valuator vs valuer
- evaluator vs valuator
- appraiser vs valuator
- value vs valuator
- estimate vs valuator