Bearer vs Nearer - What's the difference?
bearer | nearer |
One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
* Bible, 2 Chron. ii. 18
* Dryden
Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession; pallbearer.
One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
(India, dated) A domestic servant or palanquin carrier.
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 60:
A tree or plant yielding fruit.
(printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
(printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
Less distant from. (near).
* 1897 , , :
As a noun bearer
is one who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.As an adjective nearer is
less distant from. comparative of near.As a preposition nearer is
closer.bearer
English
Noun
(en noun)- Bearers of burdens.
- The bearer of unhappy news.
- (Milton)
- I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
- The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.
- a good bearer
Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----nearer
English
Adjective
(head)- The star grew—it grew with a terrible steadiness hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a little nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter and brighter, until it had turned night into a second day.
