The difference between Auricle and Pavilion

When used as nouns, auricle means the outer ear or pinna, whereas pavilion means an ornate tent.


Pavilion is also verb with the meaning: to furnish with a pavilion.

check bellow for the other definitions of Auricle and Pavilion

  1. Auricle as a noun (anatomy):

    The outer ear or pinna.

  2. Auricle as a noun (anatomy):

    An ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart.

  3. Auricle as a noun (anatomy):

    An atrium, the smaller of the two types of chamber in the heart.

  4. Auricle as a noun (botany):

    Any appendage in the shape of an earlobe.

  1. Pavilion as a noun:

    An ornate tent.

  2. Pavilion as a noun:

    A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.

  3. Pavilion as a noun:

    A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.

  4. Pavilion as a noun (cricket):

    The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.

  5. Pavilion as a noun:

    A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.

  6. Pavilion as a noun:

    The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.

  7. Pavilion as a noun (anatomy):

    The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.

  8. Pavilion as a noun (anatomy):

    The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

  9. Pavilion as a noun (military):

    A flag, ensign, or banner. A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.

  10. Pavilion as a noun (heraldry):

    A tent used as a bearing.

  11. Pavilion as a noun:

    A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

  1. Pavilion as a verb (transitive):

    To furnish with a pavilion.

  2. Pavilion as a verb (transitive):

    To put inside a pavilion.

  3. Pavilion as a verb (transitive, figuratively):

    To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").

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