An ear infection occurs when a bacterial or viral infection affects the middle earâthe sections of your ear just behind the eardrum. Ear infections can be painful because of inflammation and fluid build up in the middle ear. Ear infections can be chronic or acute. Acute ear infections are painful but short in duration.
homer (plural homers) ( 1 baseball) A four-base hit; a home run The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth. 2  A homing pigeon Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time. ( 3 sports) A person who is extremely devoted to his favorite team.
Homer: Homer, presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Although these two great epic poems of ancient Greece have always been attributed to the shadowy figure of Homer, little is known of him beyond the fact that his was the name attached in antiquity by the Greeks themselves to the poems.