Eve, Ewe, Ewer, Eaves Eve-teasing, Eaves-dropping

Eve, Ewe, Ewer, Eaves Eve-teasing, Eaves-dropping
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Punctuation plays a role in the written language: in fact a key role. One of the punctuation marks is theCapital Letteror Uppercase Letter. And, the first letter of proper nouns are always written in a Capital Letter. 

Punctuation plays a role in the written language: in fact a key role. One of the punctuation marks is theCapital Letteror Uppercase Letter. And, the first letter of proper nouns are always written in a Capital Letter.

Eve and eve has different meanings. If put it upper case it refers to the name of a person: Eve, usually to a girl of woman.

Biblically, the first woman on earth created by God is Eve, and her counterpart is Adam.

Eve, in lowercase letter (eve) has two distinct meanings. Eve is the day before an important day, the day before a festival, the day before a holiday such as Christmas Eve (the day before Christmas), New Year’s Eve (the day before 1st January). An eve before a festival or celebration of a national event is gaining importance to celebrate beforehand.

Eve means a time just before an important event. On the eve of elections, the floating voters prepare whom to vote and whom not to vote and why.

The archaic meaning of Eve is: evening.

Summer eve is wonderful to walk.

Springtime eves are great to listen to the sound of birds.

Ewe is a female sheep.

Ewer is a type of jug. Ewer is a wide-mouthed jug for holding or storing water.

When the piped water was not around human beings, basins and ewers were essential items in a household.

Eaves is a plural noun like news, like police.

Eaves is an overhanging lower edges of a roof.

Eaves-dropping is listening secretly to a private conversation of other people.

One can find eaves-dropper in digital times, too: checking out the private conversations of people on social media.

Digital eaves-droppers access the digital or electronic communications of other people including intercepting or hacking emails, phone calls, or intercepting other forms of communications.

Eaves-dropper is the one who eavesdrops!

Eavesdrops comes from the Old English (yfesdrype) literally referring to the place where water drops from the eaves

The other verb forms of eaves-dropping are eaves-drops, eaves-dropped, eaves-drop.

Eavesdropping also functions as a gerund.

Eavesdropping is not an admirable trait in a person unless done for a professional reason.

Eve-teasing or Eve teasing is a noun, and an Indian coinage because the practice is prevalent in India.

Eve teasing is the sexual harassment of women by men usually in the public places such as parks and streets.

Eve baiting (South Asia and Middle East) is harassment of women, local and foreign, by groups of men.
Did you taste Eve’s pudding?

Eve’s pudding is British delicacy made of apples.

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