different between blitter vs blotter

English

Etymology

blit +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

blitter (plural blitters)

1. (computing) A software or hardware mechanism that blits.
   • 1986, InfoWorld (volume 8, number 49, 8 December 1986, page 46)

     Not only is the Amiga blitter fully integrated with and supported by the system as a whole, it also has access to its own direct memory channel […]

Derived terms

• bob
• shadebob

Anagrams

• brittle, triblet

English

Etymology

blot +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

blotter (plural blotters)

1. A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.

   Synonym: desk pad

2. (law enforcement) A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station: a police blotter.
3. A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions.

   All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.

   He maintains the political blotter blog.

   • 2003, Karen Hood-Caddy, The Wisdom of Water

     "The blotter was so full of his scribbling, it was getting harder and harder to find places to write in."

4. (slang) A portion of blotter acid.
   • 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive

     Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.

Derived terms

• blotter acid
• blottery
• police blotter
• trade blotter

Translations

References

• blotter at OneLook Dictionary Search
• blotter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• blotter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Roblett, Tolbert, bottler

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?l?d??]

Etymology 1

From blotte (“to expose”) +? er.

Noun

blotter c (singular definite blotteren, plural indefinite blottere)

1. flasher, exhibitionist (a person exposing his or her genitalia in public)

Declension

Further reading

• “blotter” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

blotter

1. present of blotte