Daycare vs Nightmare - What's the difference?
daycare | nightmare |
Daytime supervision, usually of children.
A female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
*1843 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Black Cat’:
*:I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight—an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off—incumbent eternally upon my heart!
A very bad or frightening dream.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
(figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
As nouns the difference between daycare and nightmare
is that daycare is daytime supervision, usually of children while nightmare is a female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.daycare
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Alternative forms
* day careNoun
Derived terms
* daycare centre, daycare centerSee also
* babysitting * childcare * creche * kindergartennightmare
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(wikipedia nightmare)Noun
(en noun)- It haunted me, however, more than once, like the nightmare .
- I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares , capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
- Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.