Barber vs Umbrella - What's the difference?
barber | umbrella |
A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
to cut the hair or beard of (a person).
(US, slang) To chatter, talk.
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 29:
Cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Generally, anything that provides protection.
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Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
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The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
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To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
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To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
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To move like a sea jelly.
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As a proper noun barber
is .As a noun umbrella is
cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.As a verb umbrella is
to cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.barber
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(wikipedia barber) (en noun)Synonyms
* hairdresser, hair-dresser * hairstylist, hair-stylistDerived terms
* barber's itch * barber pole / barber's pole * barbershop * barber surgeonVerb
(en verb)- ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’