What's the difference between cove and creek?

Cove


Definition:

  • (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
  • (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
  • (n.) A concave molding.
  • (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
  • (v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
  • (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
  • (n.) A boy or man of any age or station.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Updated at 2.56pm GMT 12.51pm GMT They also think the worst is over at the Cove House Inn, according to Steven Morris.
  • (2) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
  • (3) This paper reviews the first seven days of the Station's role at Anzac Cove, during which time this essentially inexperienced medical unit treated and evacuated an estimated 2700 wounded Australian and New Zealand soldiers.
  • (4) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (5) The transient decrease in left circumflex coronary artery blood flow during atrial contraction (atrial coves) was examined in open-chest, heart-blocked dogs.
  • (6) Right diastolid flow runoff, including the cove late in diastole, resembled left circumflex runoff.
  • (7) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
  • (8) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
  • (9) The ceremony takes place at a black Catholic Church in the Prairie Hamlet of Frilot Cove: the priest imagines Collins arriving in heaven and resolving to 'take this place apart', before the Hail Mary is sung in French, and accordions play a zydeco standard entitled 'I'm Coming Home' as the coffin is laid in the ground.
  • (10) They landed on the beach at Anzac Cove at 11 a.m. on 25th April 1915, and remained on a 20 metre stretch of beach through eight months of the Gallipoli campaign.
  • (11) 'Something I think people will like is that it's a girl (not a boy) who is adventurous, strong and brave' said Bookworm88, in her review of Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John 'What I loved most was the chance to read about children whose lives are very different from mine", wrote Lottielongshanks of Sky Hawk, by Gill Lewis We'd like to find out about more books that show different lifestyles and break the stereotypes.
  • (12) If history isn’t your thing, the park also offers plenty of coastal scenery, including eight miles of hiking trails to secluded coves.
  • (13) According to local boatmen, the Rothschilds use this military-style craft to whisk their guests at a speed of 50 knots directly from the airport to a corner of north-east Corfu where the secluded coves and remote luxury villas have become a discreet playground for the rich and powerful to mix business and pleasure.
  • (14) Fifteen dolphins were taken on Sunday from the cove via sling and transferred to the Taiji harbour sea pens and several captive facilities in Taiji, the group said on its Facebook page .
  • (15) "Our losses in 2012 were devastating," said Matt Schlapp, a consultant with Cove Strategies.
  • (16) Photograph: Steven Morris Across the road from the Cove House Inn, at Brandy Cottage, Shaun Souster was mopping out his porch after seawater poured in.
  • (17) steven morris (@stevenmorris20) They've reopened the storm shutters on the Cove House Inn.
  • (18) Marks & Spencer is calling on volunteers living near beaches such as Eastney (near Portsmouth), Exmouth (Devon), Chesil Cove (Dorset) and Hayle Towans (Cornwall) to help clean and survey the affected areas during its Big Beach Clean-up between 24 and 30 April.
  • (19) Porth Iago and Porth Ferin, near Aberdaron, Gwynedd Porth Iago beach, Wales Photograph: Rob Smith These two coves are separated by a short walk along one of the newest parts of the Wales Coast Path.
  • (20) Designated the casualty clearing hospital, it was called a Casualty Clearing Station on the beach at Anzac Cove in the Gallipoli campaign.

Creek


Definition:

  • (n.) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
  • (n.) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
  • (n.) Any turn or winding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
  • (2) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
  • (3) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
  • (4) In the 19th century, Newtown Creek was a centre for oil refining and other industries, which left behind a massive oil plume.
  • (5) No brown bullheads of ages 6 or 7 were collected in the Black River, while these age groups composed 18% of the catch in Old Woman Creek.
  • (6) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
  • (7) No hepatic neoplasms were observed in fish that had been treated with sediment extract from Oakville Creek, or with extract from a reference sediment.
  • (8) Cheyenne-Arapaho, Comanche and Kiowa areas (located in the western++ part of the state) have higher alcohol-related deaths than Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole and Pawnee areas (located in eastern Oklahoma).
  • (9) P. aeruginosa was detected and recovered from all creek water and wastewater samples, but not from tap water samples tested.
  • (10) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
  • (11) Production of Kanagawa haemolysin was detected in approximately 12% and 20% of strains isolated from sediments and C. retropictus respectively at two stations in Hashizu Creek but were not detected at the other three stations.
  • (12) Amardeep Singh, of the Sikh Coalition, thanked Oak Creek's citizens for turning out in solidarity.
  • (13) He's introduced by his roommates to beautiful, mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young, and the story progresses, mostly centered around Miles' life at Culver Creek and his growing attachment to Alaska.
  • (14) Although considerable differences were noted between successive tidal cycles, overall the creek was found to be an exporting system and transported a mean concentration of ATP (-33g), chlorophyll a (-66g), particulate organic carbon (-31kg), total suspended material (-344kg), and fixed suspended material (-195kg) during each tidal cycle.
  • (15) Over the next year he filled a conference room at the Johns Creek station with boxes of police reports, victim affidavits, and audio recordings.
  • (16) Histopathological investigations of taste organs of loaches (Noemacheilus barbatulus, L.) taken from creeks with differing grades of pollution demonstrate variable degrees of damage to taste bud structures.
  • (17) Swing by its tasting room and you can try Burnley Bastard Mild brewed by Real Cask, or Nonsensical – an IPA from Brewery Creek.
  • (18) The creek was 10ft above flood stage, spilling floodwaters that almost reached the stoplights at a four-lane intersection.
  • (19) Some of the oil remains trapped beneath the frozen creek.
  • (20) Police said Sunday that the body of Chris Kyle was found by officers responding to an incident at the Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose the previous evening.