These two nouns may refer to the same event, though not necessarily.   Robbery is more general than burglary; it refers to the whole event during which something is stolen (when something valuable is taken by thieves): They performed a bank robbery and became rich but went to jail.During the robbery, the thieves took several guns […]

Breadth, breath, and breathe are completely different in meaning, so let’s get started.Breadth is a noun meaning “width or length”—the size of something in one horizontal direction—side-to-side. It can also be used metaphorically to describe the extent of knowledge and ideas: He laid out the plans for his business, covering the full breadth of the […]

Both of these nouns refer to certain basic materials of a sort.  Bullion refers to any precious metal when it is gathered together (not in the ground)—and refers to it as the raw material, not the object it is in: He was saving bars of gold bullion to use when economy collapses.How much bullion is there […]

These words have different origins and meanings. Born means “having come into being,” like a baby coming into the world: These days many people leave the places where they were born when they grow up.Her idea for the book was born during a conversation with a friend. Borne, in contrast, is the past participle of the […]

These confusing words all have completely different meanings.  In brief, a boar is an adult male pig—of any pig species.  A boor is a rude and annoying person. And bore has two meanings, each with both a noun and a verb: Bore-1 (verb):  to be uninteresting; or to make a person feel uninterestedBore-1 (noun):  an uninteresting person […]