Cove vs. Lagoon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cove and Lagoon
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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.
Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Lagoons are commonly divided into coastal lagoons and atoll lagoons.
Cove
A small sheltered bay in the shoreline of a sea, river, or lake.
Lagoon
A shallow body of water, especially one separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs.
Cove
A recess or small valley in the side of a mountain.
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Lagoon
A shallow artificial pond used for treating or storing liquid waste material or for collecting flood waters.
Cove
A cave or cavern.
Lagoon
A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.
Cove
A narrow gap or pass between hills or woods.
Lagoon
A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.
Cove
A concave molding.
Lagoon
A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll.
Cove
A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. Also called coving.
Lagoon
A body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral
Cove
A fellow; a man.
Cove
To make in an inward curving form.
Cove
A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
Cove
(architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
Cove
A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
Cove
(US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
Cove
A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
Cove
(nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
Cove
(nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
Cove
A fellow; a man.
Cove
A friend; a mate.
Cove
(architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
Cove
To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
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.
Cove
A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
Cove
A concave molding.
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.
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.
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.
Cove
A small inlet
Cove
Small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
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