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Lumberjack vs Tinman - What's the difference?

lumberjack | tinman |

As nouns the difference between lumberjack and tinman

is that lumberjack is a person whose work is to fell trees while tinman is a maker of tinware or tinman can be (genetics) a master gene in the fruit fly drosophila melanogaster , whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart.

As a verb lumberjack

is to work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.

lumberjack

English

Noun

(wikipedia lumberjack) (en noun)
  • a person whose work is to fell trees.
  • a lumberjacket.

    • Synonyms

    * (a person who fells trees) faller, feller, logger, lumberman

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 28, author=John Branch, title=Going Way of Old Growth, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer. }}

    See also

    * lumbermill

    tinman

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (tinmen)
  • A maker of tinware.
  • A dealer in tinware.

    • Etymology 2

    In allusion to the character , who lacked a heart.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (genetics) A master gene in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster , whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart.
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