Either one of the above can be used as a verb meaning to remove from the second one. Thus:
Vise - A device to hold objects in place
Vice - Immoral or criminal behavior or a device to to hold objects in place
I didn’t think people would confuse these, but after reading a comment on another website, apparently they do:
Erie: One of the Great Lakes. Also a city in Pennsylvania.
eerie: That’s the one that means strange and frightening.
eyrie: an eagle’s nest
Aerie - An eagle’s nest
Airy - Well ventilated like eagle’s nests
People who don’t know the difference between entomology and etymology bug me in ways I can’t put into words.
I can see how that would make you feel auntsy, my Ant Milly felt the same way.
Obligatory XKCD
So I assume entombology would be the study of burial practices?
carol: a festive song or dance
carrel: a partitioned space for study
wary: cautious, suspicious
leery: cautious, suspicious
weary: tired, exhausted
leary: a name, as of actor/comedian Denis Leary or LSD guru Timothy Leary
Prompted by an exchange in the “old fashioned things you’d like to see revived” thread, cable cars and trolleys are not the same thing.
Trolley: An electric vehicle that gets its power through a pole that makes contact with an overhead cable. If you want to get really pedantic, technically the word “trolley” refers to that pole, but it’s become shorthand for “trolley streetcar” or “trolley bus”, so that’s how it’s mostly used today.
Cable car: A vehicle pulled by a cable under the pavement, invented in San Francisco to deal with the city’s famously steep hills. I’m not sure if any other city has used this mode of transit; I am pretty sure they’re unique to San Francisco.
Streetcar: A North American term for a vehicle that runs on rails in the middle of the street, known as a tram in the rest of the English speaking world. I believe this could be considered a general term that would include both trolley streetcars and San Francisco’s cable cars.
It really annoys me when people call San Francisco’s cable cars “trolleys”. Although it’s true, San Francisco does have electric trolley streetcars – the historic streetcars that run down Market Street, modern ones that serve other parts of the city, and modern trolley buses. But that’s not the mode of transit most people think of when they think of San Francisco.
I was actually wrong about that; Wikipedia has a long list of cities that previously operated cable cars. And the article mentions a few cable pulled vehicles that were demonstrated before San Francisco’s cable cars, although I’m still pretty sure San Francisco was the first place where they saw widespread use.
There are those pole-and-trolley streetcars, but there are also trolleys as in a low truck without sides or ends (esp. one with flanged wheels for running on a railway) as well as a small table or stand on wheels or castors (cf. supermarket trolley, tea trolley…) and low carts of various kinds; clearly those meanings are going to blend into each other and some people see those cable cars as a type of railway trolley.
Which one of these qualifies as light rail?
In Australia at least, tram = light rail.
I not entirely sure what technically counts as light rail, but this is what the American Public Transit Association has to say about it:
…a mode of transit service (also called streetcar, tramway, or trolley) operating passenger rail cars singly (or in short, usually two-car or three-car, trains) on fixed rails in the right-of-way that is often separated from other traffic for part or much of the way. Light rail vehicles are typically driven electrically with power being drawn from an overhead electric line via a trolley [pole] or a pantograph; driven by an operator onboard the vehicle; and may have either high platform loading or low-level boarding using steps."[1]
So I guess that means that a tram / streetcar / trolley would be considered light rail. I’m not sure if something like the cable cars in San Francisco would technically qualify as light rail or not. I’m guessing that term didn’t exist when cable cars were widely used.
Or ‘trackless trolley’ for the buses.
than: [a conjunction or preposition]
then: [an adverb (or adjective or noun)]
want (n.): a desire; or, a lack or deficiency of something
wont: a custom or habit
won’t: will not
It is my wont to correct others’ errors of grammar and usage. It is your want that I stop that already. That I won’t stop is evidence of my want of empathy.
Here’s a new one I just saw today:
Whoa — a command to stop, or an exclamation of excitement or amazement
Woe — trouble or affliction