Shower vs Dinner - What's the difference?
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A brief fall of precipitation.
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A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
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A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
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A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
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#A bridal shower.
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#A baby shower.
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(label) A battle, an attack; conflict.
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*:With this I maye be sure to come sauf / and goo sauf / and that the quene shal haue her lyberte as she had before / and neuer for no thynge that hath ben surmysed afore this tyme / she neuer fro this day stande in no peryll / for els sayd sir launcelot I dare auenture me to kepe her from an harder shoure than euer I kepte her
A shower of shit.
*1956 , (w, Private's Progress) (motion picture):
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(Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier)
*1991 , Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland ,
*:It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.
(followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
To bathe using a shower.
to bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
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One who shows.
(slang) A man whose penis appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect.
A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
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*:At twilight in the summeron the floor.
The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
An evening meal.
A meal given to an animal.
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A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
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As nouns the difference between shower and dinner
is that shower is a brief fall of precipitation or shower can be one who shows while dinner is a midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).As a verb shower
is (followed by with) to spray with (a specified liquid).shower
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)page 208] ([http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226240718 University of Chicago Press; ISBN 9780226240701, 9780226240718)
Synonyms
* (device for bathing) shower bath * (instance of use) shower bathSee also
* (wikipedia "shower") *Verb
(en verb)- The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.
Synonyms
* (bathe using a shower) have a shower (British), take a shower (especially US)Derived terms
* aluminum shower * golden shower * power shower * send someone to the showers * shower attachment * shower bath * shower cap * shower curtain * shower gel * showerhead * shower rail * shower unit * showery * snow shower, snowshower * sun shower * thought showerEtymology 2
*Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (man whose penis appears roughly full size both flaccid and erect) growerAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----dinner
English
(wikipedia dinner)Noun
citation, passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}