different between volcano vs trass

English

Alternative forms

• vulcano (obsolete)

Etymology

From Italian vulcano and French volcan, from Latin Vulcanus (“Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking”). Doublet of bolcane.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v?l?ke?n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?l?ke?no?/, /v?l?ke?no?/

Noun

volcano (plural volcanoes or volcanos)

1. A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.
2. A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.

Hypernyms

• mountain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• crater
• lava
• lava flow
• magma
• vent

Verb

volcano (third-person singular simple present volcanos or volcanoes, present participle volcanoing, simple past and past participle volcanoed)

1. to erupt; to burst forth
   • 1951, Phyllis Hambledon, Nobody's Child

     She shrank back, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again

   • 2012, George Pratt, ?Peter Lambrou, ?John David Mann, Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness

     Startled, you look up at the horizon just in time to see a gigantic plume of ash and dust volcanoing up into the sky and spreading out to form a gigantic cloud that will persist for days, weeks, perhaps years.

Further reading

• volcano on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• tarrace, tarras, terras

Etymology

From Dutch tras or German Trass, probably from Italian terrazzo (“terrace”). See terrace.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æs/
• Rhymes: -??s, -æs

Noun

trass (countable and uncountable, plural trasses)

1. (geology) A white to grey volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders, sometimes used as a cement.
2. A coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.

Anagrams

• Stars, sarts, stars, tsars

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German tratz, tras

Noun

trass m or n (definite singular trassen or trasset, uncountable)

1. defiance, obstinacy

Derived terms

• trassig

Preposition

trass

1. in spite of

References

• “trass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “trass_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Presumably from German trotz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?s?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

trass m or n (definite singular trassen or trasset, uncountable)

1. spite, stubbornness, contrariness, defiance

   Han gjorde det på trass.

   He did it out of spite.

Derived terms

• trassig

Preposition

trass

1. despite

See also

• tross (Bokmål)

References

• “trass” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?s?/

  Rhymes: -??s?

Noun

trass m (definite singular trassn, definite plural trassa)

1. packing
2. rope