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As nouns the difference between adam and dan

is that adam is certain properties of a person, often derived from the biblical story while dan is a rank of black belt in martial arts or dan can be (mining) a small truck or sledge used in coal mines or dan can be (obsolete).

adam

English

(wikipedia Adam)

Proper noun

(s)
  • (Abrahamic religions) The first man and the progenitor of the human race.
  • * 1611 — 3:20
  • And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
  • * 1667 — , Book VII
  • Say Goddess, what ensu’d when Raphael, / The affable Arch-Angel, had forewarn'd / Adam by dire example to beware / Apostasie,
  • .
  • * 1859 — , ch 1
  • Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.
  • * 1904
  • Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam’s hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.
  • * 1933 — , Over the Garden Wall , Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
  • What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word,
  • (figuratively) Original sin or human frailty.
  • (with'' second ''or last) Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.
  • * 1611 — 15:45
  • And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
  • * 1739
  • Second Adam from above,
    Reinstate us in thy love.
  • Designating a neoclassical style of furniture and architecture in the style of Robert and James Adam.
  • * 1936 , (HP Lovecraft), ‘The Haunter of the Dark’:
  • Inside were six-panelled doors, wide floor-boards, a curving colonial staircase, white Adam -period mantels, and a rear set of rooms three steps below the general level.
  • Derived terms

    * Adam and Eve * Adamesque * Adamhood * Adamic, Adamical * Adamite * Adamitism * Adam's ale * * Adam's apple * Adam's flannel * Adam's morsel * Adam's needle * * Adam's wine * apple of Adam * (diminutive) * as old as Adam, old as Adam * co-Adamite * not know someone from Adam * Old Adam * pre-Adamite * since Adam was a boy

    See also

    * Eve * * * Edom ----

    dan

    English

    (dan rank)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rank of black belt in martial arts
  • Someone who has achieved a level of black belt
  • Etymology 2

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
  • Etymology 3

    (etyl)

    Noun

  • (obsolete)
  • * Spenser
  • Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright / The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
  • * Thomson
  • What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
    (Webster 1913)

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