different between beater vs beamer

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bi?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bit?/, [?bi??]
• Rhymes: -i?t?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English beter, betere, bettere, from Old English b?atere (“a beater; fighter; champion”), equivalent to beat +? -er.

Noun

beater (plural beaters)

1. Someone or something that beats.
2. A kitchen implement for mixing.
3. A stick used to play a percussion instrument.

   Synonym: drum stick

4. A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, often working in a group.
5. A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
6. (US, informal) An automobile in poor operating condition.
7. A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the loom.
8. (Canada) A harp seal pup after its first moult and before its second moult.

Derived terms

• eggbeater
• world-beater

Translations

Etymology 2

By shortening from wifebeater.

Noun

beater (plural beaters)

1. (US, informal) A sleeveless undershirt.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bartee, berate, betear, erbate, rebate, rebeat

English

Etymology

beam +? -er. The term is sometimes used in English by non-native speakers because German and Dutch use the word beamer for that purpose and it appears English (it is a pseudo-anglicism).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bi?m?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bim?/
• Rhymes: -i?m?(?)

Noun

beamer (plural beamers)

1. (cricket) A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but passes the batsman at head height.
2. (chiefly non-native speakers' English) A projector.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Beamer (“BMW”)
4. (gymnastics, slang) A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam ("beam").

Synonyms

• (BMW): beemer, bimmer, BMW

Anagrams

• Bermea, Breema, ambeer

Dutch

Etymology 1

From beamen (“to assent”) +? -er (agentive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??a?m?r/
• Hyphenation: be?amer
• Rhymes: -a?m?r

Noun

beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)

1. A consenter, who assents to a statement

Etymology 2

A pseudo-anglicism. Compare German Beamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?.m?r/
• Hyphenation: bea?mer

Noun

beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)

1. A video projector

Anagrams

• berame