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's The Odyssey is over 12,000 lines long and is an astonishing feat of literary endeavour. Homer is simply the greatest writer of all time. He wrote the epic Greek poems, of course - The Iliad and The Odyssey - so you need no further proof.