dessert vs desert
Definitions
noun
- a dish served as the last course of a meal
Examples
Freshly baked apple pie makes a tasty dessert.
There are even a couple of creamy comforting Iberian desserts for afters.
He also has a deft touch with desserts: The baklava and kadayif are subtle, less sweet and honey-drenched than most.
Definitions
verb
- leave behind
- leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
- desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
noun
- (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment
- arid land with little or no vegetation
Examples
The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt.
There are six of them in total, one hundred and fifty foot tall totemic spires of Growth Bone, Calcine, and Blossom Glass, bedecked on all sides with terraces, platforms and loggias, sun-bleached and standing to attention like nine pins spilt upon the desert or deep sea hydro-thermal vents rising from unfathomed depths.
