Hearse vs Ambulance - What's the difference?
hearse | ambulance |
A hind in the second year of its age.
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
* Ben Jonson
* Fairfax
* Longfellow
A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
* Shakespeare
A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
(dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
An emergency vehicle that transports sick or injured people to a hospital.
(military) A mobile field hospital.
As nouns the difference between hearse and ambulance
is that hearse is a hind in the second year of its age while ambulance is an emergency vehicle that transports sick or injured people to a hospital.As a verb hearse
is to enclose in a hearse; to entomb.hearse
English
(wikipedia hearse)Noun
(en noun)- underneath this marble hearse
- Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.
- who lies beneath this sculptured hearse
- Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse .
