Difference between Bay and Peninsula

What is the difference between Bay and Peninsula?

Bay as a noun is a berry. while Peninsula as a noun is a piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.

Bay

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A berry. A shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries. The leaf of this shrub, used as a herb. A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof. Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships. A bay platform. shortened form of bay window. The excited barking of dogs when hunting or being attacked. The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bark. To bark at. To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

Example sentence: I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

Peninsula

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.

Example sentence: My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

We hope you now know whether to use Bay or Peninsula in your sentence.

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