different between carver vs maker

English

Etymology

From Middle English carver, karvere, kerver, kervere, equivalent to carve +? -er. Cognate with Scots kerver, carver, carvour (“carver”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??v?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??v?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)v?(?)
• Homophone: calver (Received Pronunciation)

Noun

carver (plural carvers)

1. Someone who carves.
2. (dated) A carving knife.
3. (dated) A butcher.
4. An armchair as part of a set of dining chairs (originally for the person who is to carve the meat).
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 215:

     She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones.

5. (skiing) A ski with curved edges, allowing smooth turns.

Derived terms

• Carver

Translations

Anagrams

• Craver, craver

English

Etymology

From Middle English maker, makere, equivalent to make +? -er. Compare English makar, Scots makar, West Frisian makker, Dutch maker, German Macher, Danish mager, Swedish makare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?me?k.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?me?k.?/
• Rhymes: -e?k?(r)

Noun

maker (plural makers)

1. Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
2. (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God.
3. (now rare) A poet.
   • c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:

     Set ?ophia a?yde, for euery iack raker
     And euery mad medler mu?t now be a maker

   • 2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, p. 9:

     It is refreshing to read how makers find great allies in the past to help them tackle the present. It helps us to see that literature is a conversation across boundaries of nation, century and language.

4. (law) Someone who signs a promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• kerma, marke

Dutch

Etymology

From maken (“to make”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: ma?ker
• Rhymes: -a?k?r

Noun

maker m (plural makers, diminutive makertje n, feminine maakster)

1. maker (person or thing that makes, produces or repairs something)

Derived terms

• druktemaker
• fietsenmaker
• gangmaker
• praatjesmaker
• schoenmaker
• schoonmaker
• stratenmaker

Anagrams

• kamer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• makere, makiere, makyere, macare

Etymology

From maken +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?k?r(?)/

Noun

maker (plural makers)

1. God as creator of all.
2. Someone who makes; a craftsperson.
3. An author or other creative.
4. (rare) One who does.

Derived terms

• bellemaker
• monymaker
• patynmaker

Descendants

• English: maker
• Scots: maker, macker, makar
  • ? English: makar

References

• “m?ker(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

maker m

1. indefinite plural of make