Cave vs. Cove — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cave and Cove
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Definitions
Cave➦
A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground.
Cove➦
A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. Coves usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often situated within a larger bay.
Cave➦
A natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff
The narrow gorge contains a series of prehistoric caves
Cove➦
A small sheltered bay in the shoreline of a sea, river, or lake.
Cave➦
Explore caves as a sport
They say they cave for the adventure, challenge, and physical exercise
Cove➦
A recess or small valley in the side of a mountain.
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Cave➦
Capitulate or submit under pressure; cave in
He caved because his position had become untenable
She finally caved in the face of his persistence
Cove➦
A cave or cavern.
Cave➦
(among children) look out!
Cove➦
A narrow gap or pass between hills or woods.
Cave➦
A hollow or natural passage under or into the earth, especially one with an opening to the surface.
Cove➦
A concave molding.
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Cave➦
A storage cellar, especially for wine.
Cove➦
A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. Also called coving.
Cave➦
To dig or hollow out.
Cove➦
A fellow; a man.
Cave➦
To cause to collapse or fall in. Often used with in
The impact caved in the roof of the car.
Cove➦
To make in an inward curving form.
Cave➦
To fall in; collapse. Often used with in
The walls caved in during the earthquake.
Cove➦
A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
Cave➦
To give up all opposition; yield. Often used with in
The school committee caved in to the demands of parents.
Cove➦
(architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
Cave➦
To explore caves.
Cove➦
A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
Cave➦
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
We found a cave on the mountainside where we could take shelter.
Cove➦
(US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
Cave➦
A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
Cove➦
A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
Cave➦
A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years.
Cove➦
(nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
Cave➦
A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family.
Cove➦
(nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
Cave➦
(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.
Cove➦
A fellow; a man.
Cave➦
(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
Cove➦
A friend; a mate.
Cave➦
Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
Cove➦
(architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
Cave➦
(mining) A collapse or cave-in.
Cove➦
To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
Cave➦
The vagina.
Cove➦
A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks.
Cave➦
A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
Cove➦
A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
Cave➦
(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
Cove➦
A concave molding.
Cave➦
(programming) A code cave.
Cove➦
A boy or man of any age or station.
There's a gentry cove here.
Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drinkBe not filched from us.
Cave➦
To surrender.
He caved under pressure.
Cove➦
To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.
Cave➦
To collapse.
First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave, then we ran.
Cove➦
To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.
Cave➦
To hollow out or undermine.
The levee has been severely caved by the river current.
Cove➦
A small inlet
Cave➦
To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.
Let's go caving this weekend.
Cove➦
Small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
Cave➦
(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.
Cave➦
To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
Cave➦
(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
Cave➦
Look out!; beware!
Cave➦
A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
Cave➦
Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
Cave➦
A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866. See Adullam, Cave of, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Cave➦
To make hollow; to scoop out.
The mouldred earth cav'd the banke.
Cave➦
To dwell in a cave.
Cave➦
To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
Cave➦
An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
Cave➦
Hollow out as if making a cave or opening;
The river was caving the banks
Cave➦
Explore natural caves
