Shepherd vs Fruit - What's the difference?
shepherd | fruit |
A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd' s plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
(lb) Someone who watches over]], [[look after, looks after, or guides somebody.
*1769 , Oxford Standard text, , 23, i,
*:The LORD is my shepherd ; I shall not want.
(lb) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
To watch over; to guide
(Australian rules football) For a player to obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.
(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
* Macaulay
Offspring from a sexual union.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
As a proper noun shepherd
is .As a noun fruit is
(botany) the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.As a verb fruit is
to produce fruit.shepherd
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia shepherd)Synonyms
* sheepherderCoordinate terms
* shepherdessDerived terms
* archshepherd, Archshepherd (Koine Greek: 5:4) * chief shepherd, Chief Shepherd * shepherd's crook * shepherd's pie * undershepherdVerb
(en verb)fruit
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(wikipedia fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown