Valley vs. Gorge — What's the Difference?

A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over a very long period of time.

A narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it.

A low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it

The throat.

An internal angle formed by the intersecting planes of a roof, or by the slope of a roof and a wall.

A narrow rear entrance to a bastion, outwork, or other fortification.

An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.

A mass of ice obstructing a narrow passage, especially a river.

An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.

Eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food

A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.

A deep narrow valley with steep rocky sides; a ravine.

An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often garnished with a river flowing through it.

A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.

An area which drains itself into a river.

The throat; the gullet

Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

The crop of a hawk.

To form the shape of a valley.

An instance of gluttonous eating.

The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.

The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.

The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.

A mass obstructing a narrow passage

A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.

To stuff with food; glut

To devour greedily.

To eat gluttonously.

(archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.

(US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.

(architectural element) A concave moulding; a cavetto.

The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.

(fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

An act of gorging.

To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. on

(transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

(transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.

(transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

(slang) Gorgeous.

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

A narrow passage or entrance

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

A concave molding; a cavetto.

The groove of a pulley.

A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

To eat greedily and to satiety.

A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)

A narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

The passage between the pharynx and the stomach

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;