different between caster vs paster

English

Alternative forms

• castor (esp. UK)

Etymology

cast +? -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?k??st?(r)/, /?kæst?(r)/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæst?r/
• Rhymes: -??st?(r)
• Homophone: castor

Noun

caster (plural casters)

1. Someone or something that casts

2. A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of a wheel (which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal), an axle, a mounting provision (usually a stem, flange, or plate), and sometimes a swivel (which allows the caster to rotate for steering).

3. A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.

4. A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
5. (automotive) The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.

Derived terms

• spearcaster

Translations

See also

• caster angle
• caster sugar

Verb

caster (third-person singular simple present casters, present participle castering, simple past and past participle castered)

1. To act as a caster

Anagrams

• Cartes, Cestar, acters, carest, carets, cartes, caters, crates, creats, racest, reacts, recast, rescat, reäcts, traces

English

Etymology

paste +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?st?(r)

Noun

paster (plural pasters)

1. One who, or that which, pastes.
2. A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.

Anagrams

• Pearts, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch past?or, from Latin p?stor. The West Flemish word has stress on the first syllable, like the Latin, but this is not clearly attested in Middle Dutch.

Noun

paster m (plural pasters)

1. priest