Brother vs Bowser - What's the difference?
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Son of the same parents as another person.
* , chapter=10
, title= A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother).
A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
* The Bible, Deuteronomy 23:19 (NKJV)
(African American Vernacular English) A black male.
* 2013 , Gwyneth Bolton, Ready for Love
Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.
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To treat as a brother.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
* Seest thou not we are overreached, and that our proposed mode of communicating with our friends without has been disconcerted by this same motley gentleman thou art so fond to brother ?
A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
* 2001 , Michael Gordon, Reconciliation: A Journey ,
* 2008 , Adrian Scott, The Road Gets Better from Here ,
* 2010 , David Nichols, Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields , footnote citing 1926 report,
A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
* 1962 , The All England Law Reports , Volume 3,
* 2003 , Andy Saunders, No 43 ‘Fighting Cocks’ Squadron ,
(British) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.
* 1999 May 12, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) ,
* 2000 , Louis L. Jacobs, Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World ,
* 2010 , P. Dissanayake, N. Weragala, V. Smakhtin, Environmental Flow Assessment: Recent Examples from Sri Lanka'', Alexandra Evans, K. Jinapala (editors), ''Proceedings of the National Conference on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Sri Lanka , Volume 2,
(Irish, slang, used in the vocative) A derogatory term of address for a person similar to buffoon or imbecile.
As nouns the difference between brother and bowser
is that brother is title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or fraternal order while bowser is a fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.brother
English
Alternative forms
* brotha (Jamaican English)Noun
(en-noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers .}}
- You shall not charge interest to your brother —interest on money or'' food ''or anything that is lent out at interest.
- But damn if they knew when to just leave a brother alone and let him sulk in silence.
- And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers .
Usage notes
The plural “brethren” is not used for biological brothers in contemporary English (although it was in older usage). It is, however, still very common when meaning “members of a religious order”. It is also sometimes used in other figurative senses, e.g. “adherents of the same religion”, “countrymen”, and the like.Coordinate terms
* (with regards to gender) sisterHypernyms
* (son of common parents) siblingDerived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "brother") * big brother/Big Brother * blood brother * bro * brother german * brother-in-arms * brother-in-law * Brother Jonathan * brothered * brotherhood * brotherlike * brotherly * bruv * bruvver * Christian Brother * co-brother * cousin brother/cousin-brother * everyone and their brother/everybody and their brother * foster brother/foster-brother * half brother/half-brother * lay brother * little brother * milk brother * soul brother * stepbrother/step-brother * uterine brother * Xaverian BrotherDescendants
* Bahamian Creole: (l) * Belize Kriol English: (l) * Bislama: (l) * Cameroon Pidgin: * Gullah: (l) * Islander Creole English: (l) * Krio: (l) * Nicaraguan Creole: (l) * Nigerian Pidgin: (l) * Pichinglis: * Pijin: (l) * Portuguese: * Saramaccan: * Tok Pisin: (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)bowser
English
Noun
(en noun)page 18,
- ‘Kids are breaking into the service station bowsers' at night, draining out the dregs of petrol from the ' bowser hoses, wandering the streets sniffing petrol from Coke bottles all night,’ he said.
page 165,
- I needed at least fifteen litres more petrol in my tank to reach the next major settlement and, unlike China, there were no shiny new gas stations here with bowsers of different types of petrol to choose from, nor were there pretty young gas girls in nice uniforms ready to fill ‘er up – in fact there were no gas stations here at all; petrol was bought and sold strictly off market in private transactions.
page 309,
- The Moree Municipal Council decided to devote the revenue derived from the rent of the bowser petrol pumps within the municipality for this year, which amounted to forty guineas.
page 435,
- The bowsers then go out to the aircraft and supply them with petrol.
page 107,
- By the time No 43 Sqn was given permission to land it was quite dark, and so to assist the pilots in what were to be difficult night landings two petrol bowsers' were parked to ‘illuminate’ the runway with their dim blackout headlights. Perhaps, all things considered, the use of petrol ' bowsers for this particular task was not exactly wise.
page 588,
- Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as hon. Shidie has said, there is no water bowser' in Garissa and he categorically said that there is a water '''bowser''' to supply water to the people of Kulan. Could he give the registration number of this water ' bowser which is supplying water to the people of Kulan?
page 112,
- The water bowser needed filling.
page 29,
- Due to increasing levels of water pollution arising from low flows, water becomes unsuitable for bathing during this period and is satisfied by bowser water supply.