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Convenience vs Tailor - What's the difference?

convenience | tailor |

As nouns the difference between convenience and tailor

is that convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient while tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

As a verb tailor is

to make, repair, or alter clothes.

convenience

Noun

(en noun)
  • the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.
  • anything that makes for an easier life
  • * Cowper
  • Thus first Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences .
    Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience .
  • a convenient time, especially in the phrase at one's convenience
  • (chiefly, British) a public toilet
  • Synonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * convenience food * convenience store * flag of convenience * marriage of convenience

    tailor

    English

    (wikipedia tailor)

    Alternative forms

    * tailour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
  • (Australia) The fish .
  • Derived terms

    * tailorbird * tailoress * tailor-fashion * tailor-made * tailor's chalk * tailor's dummy

    Synonyms

    * (fish ) bluefish

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make, repair, or alter clothes.
  • To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
  • To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need
  • .

    References

    * Australian Fish and How to Catch Them , Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6.