What's the difference between fireman and policeman?

Fireman


Definition:

  • (n.) A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
  • (n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But we don't have a go at a fireman if someone is killed in a fire."
  • (2) Some abnormalities (increased VC, decreased RV) are typical of diving activities, but the deterioration of effort-dependent expiratory flow values and alveolar-capillary diffusion must be ascribed to specific nuisances (fumes, polluants, toxic substances) associated with fireman's activities.
  • (3) Her parents, a midwife and a retired fireman, said they were proud of their supremely focussed, "no fuss" daughter.
  • (4) One of these kids could be the next engineer, the next politician, fireman, cop.
  • (5) This rule has been applied primarily to police applicants, secondarily to fireman applicants, and rarely to other.
  • (6) My friend Vince, he's a fireman – he borrows my car sometimes and it's a running joke at the fire station – he's never been stopped."
  • (7) It is the obvious anguish of Stephen Thomasson, 65, a retired fireman, that suggests some may now be thinking the previously unthinkable.
  • (8) Refugees are our future spouses, best friends, or soulmates, the drummer for the band of our children, our next colleague, Miss Iceland in 2022, the carpenter who finally finished the bathroom, the cook in the cafeteria, the fireman, the computer genius, or the television host.” Syrian refugees: four million people forced to flee as crisis deepens Read more Many of those posting on the group have said they would offer up their homes and skills to help refugees integrate.
  • (9) "At the bottom of one slide, a fireman tried to protect those already lying on the floor from those coming down the slide by lying across the bottom of the slide."
  • (10) The recent kerfuffle provoked by the film of the off-duty fireman chucking the alleged fair dodger off the train in Scotland has opened an interesting debate about this issue.
  • (11) She told Ebony magazine that her partner, Ian, "was a Royal Marine, then a fireman, then a Cambridge graduate in chemistry.
  • (12) Three cases (a chemist with exposure to halogenated aromatic compounds and aliphatic amines, a pipefitter with exposure to asbestos, and a machinist with exposures to cutting oils, solvents, and abrasives) and one of 28 controls (a fireman with multiple hazardous exposures) had an occupational risk factor.
  • (13) Casting about for a career, he settled on being a fireman, because a fireman is an indisputably essential guy, right?
  • (14) Asked if she planned to be present for the execution, she replied without hesitation “oh, I’ll be there every step of the way.” Michael Ward, an off-duty fireman who was one of the first responders on the scene, put it more succinctly.
  • (15) features shows including Peppa Pig, Fireman Sam and Thomas & Friends.
  • (16) The cases are classified, by correlation of clinical and histopathological data as a variant of Fireman's disease.
  • (17) As a volunteer fireman he was on duty during the Luftwaffe's 1942 attacks on Bath, and his account of civilian life and preparations for D-day in June 1944 from his vantage point as maintenance manager at a US army camp is as engrossing as his tales of trench life.
  • (18) A fireman inspected Hope’s installation and told him he was OK to carry on.
  • (19) The capacity for barefaced lying infuriated and exasperated the legions of diplomats and mediators who dealt with Milosevic, for years treating him as the chief fireman rather than chief arsonist.
  • (20) They had two sons, Matt, a director of the McLaren Formula One team, and Foff (Francis), a West Sussex fireman.

Policeman


Definition:

  • (n.) A member of a body of police; a constable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It seems like an awfully long way from the ground.” He added: “When I was younger, I dreamed of being an astronaut, but I also wanted to be a policeman or a firebreather.
  • (2) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
  • (3) A fifth victim - an Israeli policeman - succumbed to his injuries late on Tuesday night.
  • (4) Barack Obama today phoned the white policeman he said had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor in his own home and invited the officer to visit the White House as the president attempted to defuse a growing race row over the incident.
  • (5) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
  • (6) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
  • (7) Further up the scale, the median teacher pension was £10,275, although retired policeman are on average picking up £15,636 and the average retired judge is on £53,876.
  • (8) Russian officials said the diplomat had attacked the policeman.
  • (9) When Michael is naughty she threatens to hand him over to "the policeman" and she sends grumpy Jane to exile inside a cracked Doulton bowl.
  • (10) He was speaking shortly before the arrival at RAF Lyneham, in Wiltshire, of the bodies of six British troops, including five shot dead by a "rogue" Afghan policeman they were training.
  • (11) In fact, though, it’s the policeman who appears ill at ease.
  • (12) The tissue flask adherent population was removed with the aid of a rubber policeman.
  • (13) O’Driscoll was cleared of knowing about Quinn, but faced two other charges – that he was part of the Chelsea policeman conspiracy and the alleged conspiracy to pay Neave for information on high profiles prisoners such as the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
  • (14) "These are crucial elections that we hope will make things better in Iraq," said one voter, policeman Hatef Yidam.
  • (15) A policeman holds up his hand to stop the protesters.
  • (16) No policeman had taken part in torture and the killings of thousands of activists.
  • (17) The idea was conceived by Ryan Coogler , whose 2013 Cannes award-winning drama Fruitvale Station told the real-life story of a young black man shot dead by a white transport policeman in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009.
  • (18) A policeman who used an anonymous blog to post personal opinions on the force and criticise government ministers has received a written warning but is unlikely to face further disciplinary action.
  • (19) A Swiss special policeman patrols on a roof before the start of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum 2014 in Davos.
  • (20) In Womme, a local policeman said villagers believe that Ebola is nothing more than an invention of white people, to kill black people.