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
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Auricle as a noun (anatomy):
The outer ear or pinna.
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Auricle as a noun (anatomy):
An ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart.
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Auricle as a noun (anatomy):
An atrium, the smaller of the two types of chamber in the heart.
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Auricle as a noun (botany):
Any appendage in the shape of an earlobe.
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Pavilion as a noun:
An ornate tent.
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Pavilion as a noun:
A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
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Pavilion as a noun:
A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
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Pavilion as a noun (cricket):
The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
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Pavilion as a noun:
A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
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Pavilion as a noun:
The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
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Pavilion as a noun (anatomy):
The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
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Pavilion as a noun (anatomy):
The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
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Pavilion as a noun (military):
A flag, ensign, or banner. A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
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Pavilion as a noun (heraldry):
A tent used as a bearing.
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Pavilion as a noun:
A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
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Pavilion as a verb (transitive):
To furnish with a pavilion.
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Pavilion as a verb (transitive):
To put inside a pavilion.
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Pavilion as a verb (transitive, figuratively):
To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").