Gabriel vs Homer - What's the difference?
gabriel | homer |
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* 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:
* 1986 , , Gabriel's Lament , Viking (1987), ISBN 0670816566, page 20:
An archangel associated, in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.
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An ancient Hebrew measure of capacity, equal to ten ephahs or ten s, and approximately equal to ten or eleven bushels.
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(baseball) A four-base hit; a home run
A homing pigeon
(sports) A person who is extremely devoted to his favorite team.
(baseball) To get a four-base hit; to get a home run.
As proper nouns the difference between gabriel and homer
is that gabriel is while homer is ancient greek poet; author of the iliad and the odyssey or homer can be .gabriel
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man Gabriel'' or ''Michael , giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality.
- "I'm the only Gabriel' in the whole school," I told my father. "You don't have to whisper it from the tomb, lad. You should thank your mother and me for giving you a handle that people notice. You ought to be pleased, not down in the dumps. Backstreet ' Gabriels aren't bumped into on every corner, remember.
- Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel , whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
- And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
homer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer', and the ephah the tenth part of an '''homer''': the measure thereof shall be after the ' homer .
- Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat.
Etymology 2
From home.Noun
(en noun)- The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.
- Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time.
- Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league.
Verb
(en verb)- The Sultan of Swat homered 714 times.