different between shelter vs embay

English

Etymology

From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English s?ildtruma, s?yldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from s?yld, s?ield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?(r)

Noun

shelter (plural shelters)

1. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
2. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shelter (third-person singular simple present shelters, present participle sheltering, simple past and past participle sheltered)

1. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
   • 1663, John Dryden, Epistle to Dr. Charleton

     Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

   • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

     You have no convents […] in which such persons may be received and sheltered.

2. (intransitive) To take cover.

   During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ehlerts, Hertels, Shetler, helters, three Ls

English

Etymology 1

From em- +? bay (“bathe”).

Verb

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III.11:

     Sweete Love, that doth his golden wings embay / In blessed Nectar and pure Pleasures well […].

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxii:

     Their swords both points and edges sharp embay / In purple blood whereso they hit or light.

Etymology 2

From em- +? bay.

Alternative forms

• imbay

Verb

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

1. (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.

References

• embay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Mabey, abyme, beamy, maybe