Homer vs Bart - What's the difference?
homer | bart |
An ancient Hebrew measure of capacity, equal to ten ephahs or ten s, and approximately equal to ten or eleven bushels.
* 1611, ,
* 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses ,
(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.
(British) baronet
*1867 , W.S. Gilbert,
*:The First Lord's daughter proud,
*:Snubbed earls and viscounts nightly—
*:She sneered at barts aloud.
*:And spurned poor Joe Golightly.
As nouns the difference between homer and bart
is that homer is an ancient Hebrew measure of capacity, equal to ten ephahs or ten baths, and approximately equal to ten or eleven bushels while Bart is baronet.As proper nouns the difference between homer and bart
is that homer is ancient Greek poet; author of the Iliad and the Odyssey while Bart is a diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.As a verb homer
is to get a four-base hit; to get a home run.As an acronym BART is
Bay Area Rapid Transithomer
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.