Bathroom vs Shower - What's the difference?
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A room containing a bath where one can bathe.
(chiefly, North America) A room containing a toilet.
A brief fall of precipitation.
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A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
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A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
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A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
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#A bridal shower.
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#A baby shower.
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(label) A battle, an attack; conflict.
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*:With this I maye be sure to come sauf / and goo sauf / and that the quene shal haue her lyberte as she had before / and neuer for no thynge that hath ben surmysed afore this tyme / she neuer fro this day stande in no peryll / for els sayd sir launcelot I dare auenture me to kepe her from an harder shoure than euer I kepte her
A shower of shit.
*1956 , (w, Private's Progress) (motion picture):
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(Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier)
*1991 , Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland ,
*:It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.
(followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
To bathe using a shower.
to bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
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One who shows.
(slang) A man whose penis appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect.
As nouns the difference between bathroom and shower
is that bathroom is a room containing a bath where one can bathe while shower is a brief fall of precipitation or shower can be one who shows.As a verb shower is
(followed by with) to spray with (a specified liquid).bathroom
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Noun
(en noun)- The bathroom was inconveniently located on the other side of the building.
shower
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)page 208] ([http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226240718 University of Chicago Press; ISBN 9780226240701, 9780226240718)
Synonyms
* (device for bathing) shower bath * (instance of use) shower bathSee also
* (wikipedia "shower") *Verb
(en verb)- The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.