Jears vs Jeans - What's the difference?
jears | jeans |
(nautical) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
(Webster 1913) (pluralonly) A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
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As nouns the difference between jears and jeans
is that jears is an assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship while jeans is a pair of trousers made from denim cotton.As a proper noun Jeans is
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Alternative forms
* jeersNoun
(en-plural noun)jeans
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(head)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
