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Holder vs Bearer - What's the difference?

holder | bearer |

As nouns the difference between holder and bearer

is that holder is a thing that holds while bearer is one who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

As a proper noun Holder

is {{surname|lang=en}.

holder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thing that holds.
    • Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder .
  • A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something.
    • He's been an account holder with us since 2004.
    In 2012, there were 28 living holders of the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.
  • (nautical) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
  • (sports) The defending champion.

    • bearer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
  • * Bible, 2 Chron. ii. 18
    • Bearers of burdens.
  • * Dryden
    • The bearer of unhappy news.
  • Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession; pallbearer.
    • (Milton)
  • One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
    • I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
  • (India, dated) A domestic servant or palanquin carrier.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 60:
    • The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.
  • A tree or plant yielding fruit.
    • a good bearer
  • (printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
  • (printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

    • Anagrams

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