different between hemispherical vs crater

English

Etymology

hemi- +? spherical

Adjective

hemispherical

1. Having the shape of a hemisphere.

   Split peas are hemispherical.

Synonyms

• hemispheric

Translations

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