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Lawyer vs Adult - What's the difference?

lawyer | adult |

As nouns the difference between lawyer and adult

is that lawyer is a professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, ie conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice while adult is a fully grown human or animal.

As verbs the difference between lawyer and adult

is that lawyer is (informal) to practice law while adult is to (cause to) be or become an.

As an adjective adult is

fully grown.

lawyer

English

(wikipedia lawyer)

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.
  • *
  • *:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers ; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
  • By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.

    • Synonyms

    * advocate * attorney * counselor

    Derived terms

    * corporate lawyer * jailhouse lawyer * lawyering * lawyerly

    See also

    * solicitor * barrister

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To practice law.
  • To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
  • To make legalistic arguments.
  • With "up", to acquire the services of a lawyer.
  • (colloquial, criminal law) With "up", to exercise the right to ask for the presence of one's attorney.
  • To barrage with questions in order to get the person to admit something, usually used in the past tense "[You've been] lawyered."

    • Related terms

    * lawyer up

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    adult

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fully grown human or animal.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fully grown.
    • an adult human, animal, or plant
  • Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
    • adult clothes
  • Containing material of an explicit sexual nature
    • adult content
    an adult movie

    Synonyms

    * (fully grown) big, fully grown, grown up * (unsuitable for children) blue, dirty, lewd, obscene

    Related terms

    * adolescent * adulthood

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To (cause to) be or become an .
  • * 1974 , Occasional Papers (Syracuse University), issues 42-46, page 5:
    • Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted "; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five,
  • * 2013 , Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
  • * 2013 , Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art (ISBN 364390374X), page 84:
    • The process of adulting children,
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