Ger vs Germ - What's the difference?
ger | germ |
A yurt.
* 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 133:
A male convert to Judaism.
(biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
A pathogenic microorganism.
The origin of an idea or project.
The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See .
To germinate.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Thomas Hardy
(slang) To grow, as if parasitic.
* "I’m addicted, want to germ inside your love" - Just Can't Get Enough by the Black Eyed Peas
As nouns the difference between ger and germ
is that ger is january (month) while germ is (uk|derogatory) a german person.ger
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger , and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(gerim)Anagrams
* * * ----germ
English
Noun
(en noun)- the germ of civil liberty
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- O for a withering curse to blast the germing of their wicked machinations.
- Thus tempted, the lust to avenge me / Germed inly and grew.