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Career vs Pinfall - What's the difference?

career | pinfall |

As nouns the difference between career and pinfall

is that career is one's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession while pinfall is a victorious maneuver in which both of an opponent's shoulders are held against the mat for a prescribed period of time.

As a verb career

is to move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

career

English

(wikipedia career)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Douglas Larson , title=Runaway Devils Lake , volume=100, issue=1, page=46 , magazine= citation , passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
  • General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
    • Washington's career as a soldier
  • (archaic) speed
  • * Wilkins
    • when a horse is running in his full career
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
    • It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career ; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.
  • A jouster's path during a joust.
  • * 1819 :
    • These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career .
  • (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
  • * 1603 , John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas , I.48:
    • It is said of Cæsar that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. (carriere)], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.
  • (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
  • (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • to go back again the same career

    Related terms

    * careerism * careerist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
    • The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 16, author=Ben Dirs, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan, work=BBC Sport citation
    • , passage=However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.}}

    Synonyms

    (move rapidly straight ahead) careen

    pinfall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (wrestling) A victorious maneuver in which both of an opponent's shoulders are held against the mat for a prescribed period of time.
  • *2005 , Jon Gallo, " Hammond's Cohen an Artist on the Mat," Washington Post , 3 Feb. (retrieved 14 July 2008),
  • *:Cohen is best known for the confidence he displays on the wrestling mat, . . . stringing one move after another until he hears the referee's hand slap the mat to signal a pinfall .
  • (bowling) The number of pins toppled by a bowler or bowling team during a game, tournament, career, or some other measured period.
  • *2007 , Neil Amdur, " Bowling: Why a 900 Series Just Isn’t What It Used to Be ," New York Times , 1 Jul. (retrieved 14 July 2008),
  • *:Allison, a member of the Bowling Hall of Fame, recently moved into ninth place for career pinfall with more than 103,000.