different between caster vs raster

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

From German Raster, from Latin r?ster, from r?strum (“rake”, noun), from r?dere (“to scrape”, verb).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æst?/
• Rhymes: -æst?(r)

Noun

raster (plural rasters)

1. (electronics) A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.
2. (computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.

   Synonyms: bitmap, pixmap

   Coordinate term: vector

Derived terms

• subraster

Translations

Verb

raster (third-person singular simple present rasters, present participle rastering, simple past and past participle rastered)

1. To scan in parallel lines.

Further reading

• raster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• raster at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Arters, arrest, arrêts, rarest, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

raster n (plural rasters, diminutive rastertje n)

1. grid
2. raster

Anagrams

• arrest, starer, terras

Swedish

Noun

raster n

1. a raster, a grid
2. indefinite plural of rast

Declension

Related terms

• rastrera

Anagrams

• arters, estrar, tsarer