Delft vs. Province — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Delft and Province
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Delft
Delft (Dutch pronunciation: [dɛl(ə)ft] (listen)) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, and The Hague, to the northwest.
Province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman provincia, which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy.
Delft
A style of glazed earthenware, usually blue and white.
Province
A principal administrative division of a country or empire
Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province
Delft
Pottery made in this style.
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Province
The whole of a country outside the capital, especially when regarded as lacking in sophistication or culture
I made my way home to the dreary provinces by train
Delft
Same as Delftware.
Province
An area of special knowledge, interest, or responsibility
She knew little about wine—that had been her father's province
Delft
A style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration
Province
A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire.
Province
(Ecclesiastical) A division of territory under the jurisdiction of a metropolitan.
Province
Provinces Areas of a country situated away from the capital or population center.
Province
An area of knowledge, activity, or interest
A topic falling within the province of ancient history.
Province
The range of one's proper duties and functions; scope.
Province
(Ecology) An area of land, less extensive than a region, having a characteristic plant and animal population.
Province
Any of various lands outside Italy conquered by the Romans and administered by them as self-contained units.
Province
A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.
Province
An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
Province
(Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.
Province
(Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.
Province
(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.
Province
The parts of a country outside its capital city.
Province
An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
Province
A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
Province
A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
Province
A region of country; a tract; a district.
Over many a tractof heaven they marched, and many a province wide.
Other provinces of the intellectual world.
Province
A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority.
Province
The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection.
Province
Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.
Province
The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;
His state is in the deep south
Province
The proper sphere or extent of your activities;
It was his province to take care of himself
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