different between blaster vs phaser

English

Alternative forms

• (science fiction weapon): blastor

Etymology

blast +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bl??s.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?blæs.t?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(r)

Noun

blaster (plural blasters)

1. Anything that, or anyone who blasts.

2. A device to detonate an explosive, often consisting of a box with a handle to be pressed down.
3. (science fiction) An unspecified powerful hand weapon, usually one that fires an energy pulse or beam.
4. (golf, slang) A sand wedge.
   • 1948, Henry Cotton, This Game of Golf (page 119)

     The "blaster" type of club has been blamed for doing its share in making golf courses look ridiculous, […]

   • 1962, Gary Player, Golf Secrets (page 61)

     The person who has a sand wedge - the blaster - for these shots has a distinct advantage.

Hypernyms

• (science fiction weapon): energy weapon, ray gun

Coordinate terms

• (science fiction weapon): death ray, phaser

Derived terms

• ghetto blaster

Anagrams

• Alberts, Bartels, Bartles, Stabler, Tablers, bralets, labrets, reblast, stabler, tablers

English

Etymology

• For the fictional weapon coined for Star Trek: originally a "ph(oton ma)ser," later changed canonically to a "phas(ed)-e(nergy) r(ectifier)" (of "nadions", not photons).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fe?z?/
• Rhymes: -e?z?(r)

Noun

phaser (plural phasers)

1. (music) An electronic device that produces special effects on the sound produced by an electric guitar etc.
2. (science fiction) Fictional energy weapon, with multiple settings for degree of intensity, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69).

Translations

See also

(science fiction energy weapon):

• beam cannon / beam weapon
• blaster / blaster cannon / blaster gun / blaster pistol / blaster rifle
• death ray / death ray projector
• disintegrator
• laser / laser cannon / laser gun / laser pistol / laser rifle / laser weapon
• particle cannon / particle gun / particle rifle / particle weapon
• ray gun

Verb

phaser (third-person singular simple present phasers, present participle phasering, simple past and past participle phasered)

1. (science fiction, transitive) To shoot with a phaser weapon.

References

Anagrams

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Sherpa, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, pasher, phares, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaper, sharpe, sherpa, shrape, sphear