Swab vs Shawn - What's the difference?
swab | shawn |
(medicine) a small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
A sample taken with a swab (1).
A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
A mop, especially on a ship.
(slang) A sailor; a swabby.
To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.
* , chapter=6
, title= , popular in the US in the 1970s.
* 1996 , The Night in Question: Stories , Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0679402187, page 141
, transferred from the male name.
* 1984 , , Love Medicine , Bantam Books 1987, ISBN 0553268082, page 169
As a noun swab
is (medicine) a small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.As a verb swab
is to use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.As a proper noun shawn is
, popular in the us in the 1970s.swab
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (sailor) swabbyVerb
(swabb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
shawn
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Alternative forms
* Sean * ShaunProper noun
(en proper noun)- Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N . Like they have a right to that name in the first place.
- Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn , like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales.