Policeman vs. Fireman — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Policeman and Fireman
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Policeman
A man who is a member of a police force.
Fireman
A firefighter.
Policeman
A male police officer, sometimes used for any police officer regardless of gender.
Fireman
A man who tends fires; a stoker.
Policeman
(chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
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Fireman
An enlisted man in the US Navy or Coast Guard engaged in the operation of engineering machinery.
Policeman
(entomology) Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.
Fireman
(Baseball) A relief pitcher.
Policeman
(ice hockey) enforcer
Fireman
(firefighting) Someone (especially one who is male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.
Policeman
A member of a body of police; a constable.
Fireman
A person (originally a man) who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive or steamship.
Policeman
A member of a police force;
It was an accident, officer
Fireman
An assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not.
Fireman
(baseball) A relief pitcher (reflecting the figurative analogy of rescuing the situation).
Fireman
A safety inspector in coal mines.
Fireman
A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
Fireman
A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
Fireman
Play in which children take the roles of firemen and pretend to put out a fire
Fireman
A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
Fireman
A pitcher who does not start the game
Fireman
A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
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