Bear vs Pope - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bear and pope

is that bear is a large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae, particularly of subfamily subfamily: Ursinae while pope is an honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church.

As verbs the difference between bear and pope

is that bear is to endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in while pope is to act as or like a pope.

As proper nouns the difference between bear and pope

is that bear is {{surname|lang=en} while Pope is {{surname|A=An English|from=nicknames}} originating as a nickname.

As an adjective bear

is characterized by or believing to benefit of declining prices in securities markets.

bear

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) ). (etymology notes) This is generally taken to be from (etyl) ), related to (m) and (m). The Germanic languages replaced the older name of the bear, , with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare (etyl) , literally “honey-eater”. However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *b?er- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from (etyl) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *??w'' and ''*g??'' (''*g??'' may sometimes result in Germanic ''*b'', perhaps e.g. in '''', but it also seems to have given the ''g'' in ''gun'' and the ''w'' in ''warm .)

Noun

(en noun)

A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae, particularly of subfamily .

(figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.

(finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities

(slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).

* 1976 June, CB Magazine , Communications Publication Corporation, Oklahoma City, June 40/3:

‘The bear's pulling somebody off there at 74,’ reported someone else.

(slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.

* 1990 , "Bears, gay men subculture materials" (publication title, , Collection Level Periodical Record):

* 2004 , Richard Goldstein, Why I'm Not a Bear'', in ''The Advocate , number 913, 27 April 2004, page 72:

I have everything it takes to be a bear : broad shoulders, full beard, semibald pate, and lots of body hair. But I don't want to be a fetish.

* 2006 , Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human sexuality :

There are numerous social organizations for bears in most parts of the United States. Lesbians don't have such prominent sexual subcultures as gay men, although, as just mentioned, some lesbians are into BDSM practices.

(engineering) A portable punching machine.

(nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.

Synonyms

* (large omnivorous mammal) see * see * (police officer) see

Antonyms

* (investor who anticipates falling prices) bull

Derived terms

* ant bear * Atlas bear * bear cat/bearcat * bear claw * bear cub * bear grass * bear hug * bear market * bearish * bearly * bear pit * bear's breech * bear spread * beartrap/bear trap * bear walker * black bear * brown bear * cat bear * cave bear * dancing bear * does a bear shit in the woods * Etruscan bear * Gobi bear * Great Bear * grizzly bear * gummy bear * honey bear * koala bear * kodiak bear/Kodiak bear * Little Bear * loaded for bear * mama bear * mamma bear * moon bear * native bear * panda bear * polar bear * she-bear * sloth bear * spectacled bear * sun bear * teddy bear * washing bear * water bear * white bear * wooly bear/woolly bear

Verb

(en verb)

(finance) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.

to bear a railroad stock

to bear the market

Adjective

(-)

(finance, investments) Characterized by or believing to benefit of declining prices in securities markets.

The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.

References

* Donald A. Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic'' (2006), ''Linguistic history of English, vol. 1 , Oxford: Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-955229-0)

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

To support or sustain; to hold up.

This stone bears most of the weight.

To carry something.

* (rfdate), (Shakespeare):

I'll bear your logs the while.

* 2005 , Lesley Brown, translator, :

imitations that bear the same name as the things

* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation

, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=1954

, month=03 , first=Ray , last=Bradbury , title=All Summer in a Day , volume=6 , issue=3 , page=122 , magazine=The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , publisher=Fantasy House, Inc. , issn= citation , passage=They surged about her, caught her up and bore her }}

To be equipped with (something).

the right to bear arms

To wear or display.

The shield bore a red cross.

To declare as testimony.

The jury could see he was bearing''' false '''witness .

To put up with something.

I would never move to Texas—I can't bear heat.

Please bear with me as I ramble on and on about nothing very important, such as that time when I was in Montana and I may have seen a mountain lion, but it was pretty far off and it was raining—the weather, not the lion—and the car broke down...

To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).

In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.

(ambitransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.

* (rfdate), (John Dryden)

this age to blossom, and the next to bear

To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).

The harbour bears north by northeast.

By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.

Great Falls bears north of Bozeman.

To suffer, as in carrying a burden.

* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope):

Man is born to bear .

To endure with patience; to be patient.

* (rfdate) (John Dryden):

I cannot, cannot bear .

To press; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .

* (rfdate) (Addison):

These men bear hard on the suspected party.

To take effect; to have influence or force.

to bring matters to bear

To relate or refer; with on'' or ''upon .

How does this bear on the question?

To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.

* (rfdate) (Nathaniel Hawthorne):

Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform.

(obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):

Bear them to my house.

To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.

* (rfdate) Bible, Esther 1.22:

Every man should bear rule in his own house.

To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):

the ancient grudge I bear him

(obsolete) To gain or win.

* (rfdate) (Francis Bacon):

Some think to bear it by speaking a great word.

* (rfdate) (Latimer):

She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.

To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).

* (rfdate) Bible, Isaiah 53:11:

He shall bear their iniquities.

* (rfdate) (John Dryden):

somewhat that will bear your charges

To carry on, or maintain; to have.

* (rfdate) (John Locke):

the credit of bearing a part in the conversation

To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.

* (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift):

In all criminal cases the most favourable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear .

To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):

Thus must thou thy body bear .

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):

Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?

To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.

* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope):

His faithful dog shall bear him company.

Usage notes

* The past participle of bear'' is usually ''borne : ** He could not have borne that load. ** She had borne five children. ** This is not to be borne ! * However, when bear'' means "to give birth to" (literally or figuratively), the passive past participle is ''born : ** She was born on May 3. ** Born three years earlier, he was the eldest of his siblings. ** "The idea to create [the Blue Ridge Parkway] was born in the travail of the Great Depression ." (Tim Pegram, The Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot: A Park Ranger's Memoir , ISBN 0786431407, 2007, page 1) * Both spellings are used in the construction born(e) to someone (as a child): ** He was born(e) to Mr. Smith. ** She was born(e) to the most powerful family in the city. ** "[M]y father was borne to a Swedish mother and a Norwegian father, both devout Lutherans." (David Ross, Good Morning Corfu: Living Abroad Against All Odds , ISBN 1452450323, 2009)

Derived terms

* bear down * bear down on * bear fruit * bear in mind * bear out * bear up * bear with * bear witness * bring to bear * not bear thinking about * outbear

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pope

English

Caprara. The Pope wears the pallium.

Alternative forms

* Pope

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pope, popa, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church.

* ante'' 950 , translating (Bede)'s ''(Ecclesiastical History) (Tanner), iv. i. 252

Þa]] tid [[Vitalius, Uitalius papa þæs apostolican seðles aldorbiscop.

* 1959 August 19 , (w, Flannery O'Connor), letter in Habit of Being (1980), 347

The Pope is not going to issue a bull condemning the Spanish Church's support of France and destroy the Church's right to exist in Spain.

* 2007 May 5, Ted Koppel (guest), Wait, Wait... Don’t tell me! , National Public Radio

I really did want to interview the pope'. Any ' pope . I'm not particular.

# Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.

#* 1689 , G. Bulkeley, People's Right to Election'' in ''Andros Tracts (1869), II. 106

We often say, that every man has a pope in his belly.

#* 1893 January 19 , Nation (N.Y.), 46/3

... accepted him [Dante Gabriel Rossetti] as the infallible Pope of Art.

#* 1972 June 2 , Science , 966/2

Both [discoveries] were rejected offhand by the popes of the field.

#* 1978 , Atlas World Press Review , volume 25, page 19:

Above all, the SED reformers cite the progress inherent in the emancipation of Westem Communist parties from the "red popes in the Kremlin."

# (by extension) Any similar head of a religion.

#* (John Mandeville), Travels (Titus C.xvi, 1919), 205

In þat]] yle dwelleth the Pope of hire lawe, [[they, þei clepen lobassy.

#* 1787 , A. Hawkins translating Vincent Mignot as The history of the Turkish, or Ottoman Empire , IV.

Mufti , the Mahometan pope or chief of the religion.

#* 2005 April 6 , Kansas City Star , b7

Although Islam has no formal hierarchy of clergy, Tantawy [Egypt's grand imam] often is called the Muslim pope .

# (uncommon) A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of (Prester John) or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.

#* ante'' 1500 , (John Mandeville), ''Travels (Rawl., 1953), 103

Eche]] day there etyn in his court xii erchebeshopis and xx bishopis, and the patriak of [[Saint Thomas, Seynt Thomays is as here pope .

#* 1993 December , Vanity Fair (N.Y.), 62/1

, known as ‘the Pope of Pop’ is one of the top record producer-engineers in the world.

# (UK) An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.

#* 1830 , Alexander Pope, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , page xxi:

This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion, by ridiculing the ceremony of burning the pope , and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription

#* 2005 , Gary S. De Krey, London and the Restoration, 1659–1683 (ISBN 1107320682), page 182:

As York's succession was challenged by burning the pope , the Duke of Monmouth was again heralded in the city as a Protestant alternative.

# (US, obsolete) Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.

(Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.

(Christianity, historical, obsolete) Any bishop of the early Christian church.

* 1563 , 2nd Tome Homelyes, sig. Hh.i

All notable Bishops were then called popes .

* 1703 , translating U. Chevreau as Hist. World , III. v. 379

All Bishops in that time had the Stile]] of Pope given them, as now we call every one of them, [[my Lord, My Lord.

(UK) The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (); others of its genus.

* 1792 , William Augustus Osbaldiston, The British Sportsman, Or, Nobleman, Gentleman and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement , page 176:

Byfleet-river, wherein are very large pikes, jack, and tench ; perch, of eighteen inches long ; good carp, large flounders, bream, roach, dace, gudgeons, popes , large chub, and eels.

* 1862 , Francis T. Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History , page 230:

It resembles the perch (unfortunately for itself) in having a very long and prickly fin on its back, advantage of which is taken by the boys about Windsor, who are very fond of 'plugging a pope'.' This operation consists in fixing a bung in the sharp spines on the poor ' pope's back fin, and then throwing him into the water.

* 1865 January 14, Astley H. Baldwin, "Small Fry" in Once a Week , page 105:

Popes are caught whilst gudgeon-fishing with the red worm, but they are sometimes a great nuisance to the perch-fisher, as they take the minnow.

(rfv-sense) ).

* 1658 , J. Rowland translating T. Moffet as Theater of Insects'' in Topsell's ''Hist. Four-footed Beasts , 1086:

The English call the Wheat-worm]] Kis, Pope , Bowde, Weevil and [[wibil, Wibil.

* 1743 , W. Ellis, Suppl. to London & Country Brewer second edition, 259:

At Winchester they call this Insect [the weevil], Pope , Black-bob]], or [[creeper, Creeper.

* 1847 , J. O. Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic & Provincial Words , II. 637/2

Popes , weevils. Urry gives this as a Hampshire word, in his MS. adds. to Ray.

(rfv-sense) ).

*1759 , "Linnæus's Systema Naturæ", The Gentleman's Magazine , page 456:

*:Alca genus; 6 species, including the razorbill, the penguin, the pope , and others.

*1773 , John Hill, "Alca", A General Natural History , volume 3, page 442:

The Pope : This is a very singular bird; it is about the size of our widgeon, or somewhat larger, but is not quite so large as the duck: the head is large and rounded; the eyes are small, and stand forward on the head, and lower down than in the generality of birds [...]

* 1822 , George Woodley, A view of the present state of the Scilly Islands , page 264-5:

"About a hundred yards further North" says Troutbeck, "is a 'subterraneous' cavern called the Pope's' Hole, about fifty fathoms under the ground, into which the sea flows, so called from a sort of bird which roosts in it by night, about ninety feet high above the level of the water."!! [...] It derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins, ''vulgo'' "' popes ".

* 1864 , Charles Issac Elton, Norway: The Road and the Fell , page 94:

The Norsemen catch great numbers of these popes , parrots, or lunder , as they are variously named, and train dogs to go into the holes where the puffin has its nest, lying in it with feet in the air.

* 1874 , J. Van Voorst, Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History , page 3904:

I was informed by a fisherman that there were now hundreds of gannets in the channel off Plymouth, and that he had also met with some puffins (which he called "popes ")

* 1771 , M. Bossu, Travels Through that Part of North America Formerly Called Louisiana , volume 1, page 371:

The Pope is of a bright blue round the head; on the throat it is of a fine red, and on the back of a gold green colour, it sings very finely and is the size of a canary bird.

* 1806 , Berquin-Duvallon, Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas, in the Year, 1802: Giving a Correct Picture of Those Countries , page 122:

The birds [of Louisiana] are the partridge, cardinal and pope , and a species of mocking bird, called the nightingale.

* 1821 Édouard de Montulé, A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies in 1817 , page 54:

[...] some others, such as the crow, the heron, and the wild goose, which are found in Europe, I also observed ; but the most beautiful are the pope'' bird, whose head seems bound with the most bright azure blue, and the ''cardinal , being entirely of dazzling scarlet [...]

(rfv-sense) The bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula ).

* 1864 , N. & Q. 3rd series, 5 124/2:

Pope', Nope]], Alp, Red-Hoop, and [[tony-hoop, Tony-Hoop, are all provincial appellations of... the common ' Bullfinch .

* 1885 , C. Swainson, Provincial Names for British Birds , 66:

Bullfinch... From Alp]], the old name for the bird used in Ray's time, the following seem to be derived:—Hoop, or Hope... Pope' ((Dorset)). Hope and [[mwope, Mwope are identical, as also ' Pope .

* 1963 , R. M. Nance, Glossary of Cornish Sea-words , 129:

*:‘Pope ’ is in (Dorset) a bullfinch.

* 2001 April 10 , Western Morning News (Plymouth), 26:

Bullfinches are known as hoops in the (Westcountry), from their calls, and as mawps and popes .

(rfv-sense) ).

* 1885 , C. Swainson, Provincial Names of British Birds , 47:

Red-backed shrike... Pope (Hants).

The red-cowled cardinal ().

* 1864 August 6, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman , page 100:

From the sketch of the bird which you have sent us, there is no doubt about its being the Pope Grosbeak, which is a species of the Cardinal, but not the crested one.

* 1883 , William Thomas Greene, The amateur's aviary of foreign birds: or, How to keep and breed foreign birds , page 96:

The Pope is a native of Brazil, and the female (it is altogether incongrouous to think of a lady pontiff) exactly resembles her mate.

* 1895 , A. A. Thom, "Dominican cardinals" in The Avicultural Magazine , page 128:

SIR,—I should be glad to learn how to treat Pope birds (Crestless Cardinals) when nesting.

* 1898 , The Avicultural Magazine , Volume 4, page 87:

Besides the Bicheno's Finches in this Class, the judge disqualified, in other Classes, a pair of Magpie Mannikins and a pair of Popes . These entries were presumably all disqualified on the ground that they were not true pairs: they are all birds in which the outward differences between the sexes (if there be any outward difference at all) are of an extremely slight and uncertain nature.

* 1956 , Foreign birds for cage and aviary , Volume 4, page 20:

The wisest plan is always to keep the Pope Cardinal in an aviary, and to have only one pair to each aviary.

Usage notes

In English usage, originally and generally taken to refer to the bishop of Rome, although the Egyptian title is actually older. Within the Coptic church, the patriarch of Alexandria is normally styled Pope ~; within the Eastern Orthodox church, their separate patriarch of Alexandria is formally titled Pope of Alexandria but referred to as such only in the liturgy and official documents.

Coordinate terms

* (adjective) papal * (office) papacy * (rival) antipope * (female) popess, papess * (supporter) papist

Synonyms

* (Catholic) Bishop of Rome, Patriarch of Rome, Vicar of Christ * (Coptic) Bishop]] of Alexandria, [[patriarch, Patriarch of Alexandria * (Orthodox) Orthodox Bishop of Alexandria * (Pope Day) See Guy Fawkes Day. * See their respective entries .

Derived terms

* antipope * black pope, Black Pope * does the Pope shit in the woods? * is the Pope Catholic? * pope-bulled * pope-burning * Pope catholic * pope-conjurer * pope-consecrated * Pope Day * popedom * pope-fly * Pope of Fools * pope-given * Pope's-hat * pope-horn * Pope John * Pope-king * Pope's Knight * pope's living room * pope's-milk * popemobile, Popemobile * Pope Night * pope's nose * pope pleasing * pope-powdered * pope-prompted * pope-rid * Pope-trumpery * pope worshipper * Red Pope * White Pope

Verb

(pop)

To act as or like a pope.

* 1537 , T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman, Life & Lett. Cromwell (1902), II. 89

Paul popith Jolyly]], that woll desire the worlde to pray for the [[king's, kinges apeyrement.

* 1624 , R. Montagu, Gagg for New Gospell? xiii. 95

, that now Popeth it .

* 1966 February , Duckett's Reg. , 14/2

would pope it in his own way, God guiding him.

* 1989 September 24 , Los Angeles Times , iii. 22/1

I saw where the Pope poped and where the pigeons flocked. Pretty interesting if you're Catholic and like pigeons.

(colloquial) To convert to Roman Catholicism.

* in (Evelyn Waugh)'s Life R. Knox (1959), ii. i. 142

I'm not going to ‘Pope ’ until after the war (if I'm alive).

* 1990 October 7 , Sunday Telegraph , 26/5

A prominent Anglican priest had, to use the term generally employed on these occasions, ‘Poped ’—that is, left the Church of England in order to become a Roman Catholic.

Etymology 2

By analogy with .

Noun

(en noun)

(alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.

* 1855 , C. W. Johnson, Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs , 1157/1

When made with Burgundy]] or Bordeaux, the mixture was called Bishop; when with old Rhenish, its name was Cardinal; and when with [[tokay, Tokay, it was dignified with the title of Pope .

* 1920 , G. Saintsbury, Notes on Cellar-bk. , xi. 162

*:‘Pope ’, i.e. mulled burgundy, is Antichristian, from no mere Protestant point of view.

* 1965 , O. A. Mendelsohn, Dict. Drink , 264

Pope , a spiced drink made from tokay..., ginger, honey and roasted orange.

* 1976 January 15 , Times (London), 12/8

Many of these hot drinks have clerical names—Bishop]] being a type of mulled port, Cardinal using claret, and Pope [[champagne, Champagne.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) , from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(Russian Orthodoxy) , a Russian Orthodox priest.

* 1662 , J. Davies translating A. Olearius as Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors , 139

The other Ecclesiastical Orders are distinguish'd into Proto-popes', ' Popes , (or Priests) and Deacons.

* 1756 , Compend. Authentic & Entertaining Voy. , V. 202

Every priest is called pope , which implies father.

* 1996 September 20 , Daily Telegraph , 25/5

In the non-Roman rites diocesan priests are often referred to as popes .

Etymology 4

Noun

(en noun)

(US, dialectal, obsolete) The whippoorwill (Caprimulgus vociferus ).

* 1781 , S. Peters, Gen. Hist. Connecticut , 257:

The Whipperwill has so named itself by its nocturnal songs. It is also called the pope', by reason of its darting with great swiftness, from the clouds almost to the ground, and bawling out ' Pope !

(US, dialectal, rare) The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor ).

* 1956 , Massachusetts Audubon Soc. Bull. , 40 81:

Common Nighthawk... Pope (Conn[ecticut]. From the sound made by its wings while dropping through the air).

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Bear vs Pope - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bear and pope

As verbs the difference between bear and pope

As proper nouns the difference between bear and pope

As an adjective bear

bear

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