Pillow vs Sham - What's the difference?
pillow | sham |
A soft cushion used to support the head in bed.
(geology) A pillow lava.
(engineering) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
(nautical) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
A kind of plain, coarse fustian.
To rest as on a pillow.
* 1942': She had '''pillowed her head on her arm — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 815-6)
Intended to deceive; false.
counterfeit; unreal
* Jowett
A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
Trickery, hoaxing.
A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
A decorative cover for a pillow.
To deceive, cheat, lie.
* L'Estrange
To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
* L'Estrange
To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
As a noun pillow
is a soft cushion used to support the head in bed.As a verb pillow
is to rest as on a pillow.As a proper noun sham is
syria.pillow
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(wikipedia pillow)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* pillow-biter * pillow block * pillow case * pillow fight * pillowing * pillow lace * pillow lava * pillow sham * pillowyVerb
(en verb)sham
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It was only a sham wedding: they didn't care much for one another but wanted their parents to stop hassling them.
- They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.
Synonyms
* mock * See alsoAntonyms
* genuine * sincere * realNoun
(en noun)- The time-share deal was a sham .
- A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.
Derived terms
* shamateurSee also
* pillow shamVerb
(shamm)- Fooled and shammed into a conviction.
- We must have a care that we do not sham fallacies upon the world for current reason.