different between terran vs terrain

English

Adjective

terran (comparative more terran, superlative most terran)

1. (chiefly science fiction, uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”)
   • 2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 128:

     […] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).

   • 2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, (?ISBN), page 71:

     As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.

   • 2011, David Weber, How Firm a Foundation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#5), Macmillan (?ISBN):

     Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.

   • 2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider (?ISBN):

     Annual Pack Includes:

     Gift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption).

     Personalised certificate.

     Stand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.

   • 2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN):

     Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]

   • 2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin (?ISBN):

     Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]

   • 2014, Don Pendleton, New Orleans Knockout, Open Road Media (?ISBN):

     The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.

Anagrams

• Ranter, Ratner, errant, ranter

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.?re?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

terrain (countable and uncountable, plural terrains)

1. (geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
2. An area of land or the particular features of it.

Synonyms

• ground

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• terrain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• rantier, retrain, trainer

French

Etymology

From Old French terrain, terrein, from Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terr?num.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.???/

Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. ground, landscape
2. field (as in soccer field)

3. lot, plot, parcel

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Czech: terén
• Norwegian:

  ? Norwegian Bokmål: terreng

  ? Norwegian Nynorsk: terreng

• ? Swedish: terräng

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rentrai, ternira, trainer, traîner

Romansch

Alternative forms

• terren (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• taragn (Sutsilvan)
• teragn (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terrenum.

Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. (Puter, Vallader) land, soil
2. (Puter) country, land

   Synonym: (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pajais