Tulip vs Sweater - What's the difference?
tulip | sweater |
A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa .
* 1876 — " No. CCCXL, April 1876, Vol. LII.
* , chapter=10
, title= The flower of this plant.
A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
A similar garment worn for warmth.
One who sweats (produces sweat).
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One who or that which causes to sweat.
*1906 , Chesterton, Charles Dickens ,
*:We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters ; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.
As an acronym tulip
is (religion).As a noun sweater is
a knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.tulip
English
Noun
(en noun)- "The sturdy burghers of Holland took the tulip mania so badly that single bulbs that could not flower till another year would sell for more than $2000 apiece."
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}