The difference between Brook and Swallow

When used as nouns, brook means a body of running water smaller than a river, whereas swallow means a deep chasm or abyss in the earth.

When used as verbs, brook means to use, whereas swallow means to cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach.

check bellow for the other definitions of Brook and Swallow

  1. Brook as a verb (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots):

    To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.

  2. Brook as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To earn; deserve.

  3. Brook as a verb (transitive):

    To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).

    Examples:

    "I will not brook any disobedience.   I will brook no refusal.   I will brook no impertinence."

  1. Brook as a noun:

    A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

  2. Brook as a noun (Sussex, Kent):

    A water meadow.

  3. Brook as a noun (Sussex, Kent, in the plural):

    Low, marshy ground.

  1. Swallow as a verb (transitive):

    To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.

  2. Swallow as a verb (transitive):

    To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.

  3. Swallow as a verb (intransitive):

    To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.

    Examples:

    "My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow."

  4. Swallow as a verb (transitive):

    To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.

  5. Swallow as a verb:

    To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.

  6. Swallow as a verb:

    To retract; to recant.

    Examples:

    "to swallow one's opinions"

  7. Swallow as a verb:

    To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.

    Examples:

    "to swallow an affront or insult"

  1. Swallow as a noun (archaic):

    A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.

  2. Swallow as a noun:

    The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

    Examples:

    "He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water."

  3. Swallow as a noun (Nigeria):

    Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.

  1. Swallow as a noun:

    A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.

  2. Swallow as a noun (nautical):

    The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ham. Nav. Encyc"

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