Chaplet vs. Garland — What's the Difference?

A wreath or garland for the head.

A garland is a decorative braid, knot or wreath of flowers, leaves, or other material. Garlands can be worn on the head or around the neck, hung on an inanimate object, or laid in a place of cultural or religious importance.

A string of beads resembling a rosary, used to count iterations in a devotional sequence of prayers.

A wreath or festoon, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.

The sequence of prayers counted on such a string of beads.

A representation of such a wreath or festoon, used as an architectural ornament or heraldic device.

A string of beads.

A mark of honor or tribute; an accolade

(Architecture) A small molding carved to resemble a string of beads.

(Nautical) A ring or collar of rope used to hoist spars or prevent fraying.

A garland or circlet for the head.

An anthology, as of ballads or poems.

A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.

To ornament or deck with a garland.

(archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.

To form into a garland.

(Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.

A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.

(specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.

An accolade or mark of honour.

A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.

(mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.

A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.

The crown of a monarch.

A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.

(dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.

Alternative form of chapelet

The top; the thing most prized.

A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.

(nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.

A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.

(nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.

A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.

(transitive) To deck or ornament something with a garland.

A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.

(transitive) To form something into a garland.

A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.

The crown of a king.

A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.

A small chapel or shrine.

The top; the thing most prized.

To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.

A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.

Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes

A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.

To deck with a garland.

United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)

A city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas)

An anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes

Adorn with bands of flowers or leaves;