different between designer vs initiator

English

Etymology

design +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??za?n?/
• Rhymes: -a?n?(?)

Noun

designer (plural designers)

1. A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
2. A plotter or schemer.
3. (computing) A software tool for designing things.

   a font designer

   a level designer for a video game

Derived terms

• graphic designer
• designership

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

designer (not comparable)

1. Created by a designer, especially a fashion designer.

   designer swimwear

   a designer briefcase

Derived terms

• designer baby
• designer dog
• designer drug

Anagrams

• Edingers, energids, enridges, re-signed, redesign, reedings, resigned

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English designer. Equivalent to design +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?z?i?.n?r/
• Hyphenation: de?sig?ner

Noun

designer m (plural designers, diminutive designertje n)

1. designer

Synonyms

• ontwerper

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English designer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dis?i?ner/, [?dis??i?ne?r]

Noun

designer

1. designer

   Synonym: suunnittelija

Declension

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English designer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.zaj.nœ?/

Noun

designer m (plural designers)

1. designer

Etymology 2

English design +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.zaj.ne/

Verb

designer

1. to design

Conjugation

Anagrams

• dénigres, dénigrés, geindres, gredines

Further reading

• “designer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English designer.

Noun

designer m or f (invariable)

1. designer (especially one who designs furniture or other industrial products)

Latin

Verb

d?signer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of d?sign?

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

designer

1. present tense of designe

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English designer.

Noun

designer m, f (plural designers)

1. designer (person who designs)

Swedish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

designer

1. indefinite plural of design

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English designer.

Noun

designer c

1. a designer

Declension

English

Etymology

initiate +? -or

Noun

initiator (plural initiators)

1. One who initiates.
2. (chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization.
3. (military) A component of a nuclear weapon that produces a burst of neutrons to trigger a fission chain reaction.
4. (computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.
5. (medicine) A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer.

Translations

Latin

Verb

initi?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of initi?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of initi?

References

• initiator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• initiator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• initiator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette