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jordan | tyler |

As nouns the difference between jordan and tyler

is that jordan is (obsolete) a pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists while tyler is .

jordan

English

(wikipedia Jordan)

Proper noun

(s)
  • A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
  • A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
  • ; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
  • * 1989 (Jeanette Winterson), Sexing the Cherry , Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
    • I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
  • derived from the male given name.
  • used since mid-20th century.

    • Derived terms

    * Jordanian * Jordanesque *Jordanianism *Jordanianness

    See also

    * English unisex given names ----

    tyler

    English

    Proper noun

    (s)
  • for a tiler.
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 1930 Henry Robinson Luce, Fortune (published by Time, inc., 1930):
    • However, the whippet-like appearance of most Tyler' Corp. executives suggests what McKinney really wants is a spring-legged crew that can run its competitors into the ground. - - - It's no coincidence, either, that his seven-year-old son is named ' Tyler .
  • * 1977 Peter Tauber, The Last Best Hope (ISBN 0151483779), page 78:
    • "Yeah, I guess. I'm part Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth - on paper."
    Zermatt sucked his teeth, still dubious. "I thought Cobb was Tyrus."
    "Sounded too foreign for my mom or something. And there was some Scottish rebel named Tyler - maybe a cousin, so they compromised. It's kind of presidential, too, I guess. And my middle name is for - da-dum! - George Herman Ruth."
  • used since the 1980s.
  • A city in Minnesota.
  • A city in Texas.

    • Derived terms

    * Tylerism * Tylerize English unisex given names