different between flanger vs phaser

English

Etymology

flange +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?flæn.d??(?)/

Noun

flanger (plural flangers)

1. (music) An electronic device or software that alters the sound of an instrument by combining out-of-phase copies of its original sound.
2. (US) A mechanical device used to remove ice and snow from railway lines.

English

Etymology

• For the fictional weapon coined for Star Trek: originally a "ph(oton ma)ser," later changed canonically to a "phas(ed)-e(nergy) r(ectifier)" (of "nadions", not photons).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fe?z?/
• Rhymes: -e?z?(r)

Noun

phaser (plural phasers)

1. (music) An electronic device that produces special effects on the sound produced by an electric guitar etc.
2. (science fiction) Fictional energy weapon, with multiple settings for degree of intensity, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69).

Translations

See also

(science fiction energy weapon):

• beam cannon / beam weapon
• blaster / blaster cannon / blaster gun / blaster pistol / blaster rifle
• death ray / death ray projector
• disintegrator
• laser / laser cannon / laser gun / laser pistol / laser rifle / laser weapon
• particle cannon / particle gun / particle rifle / particle weapon
• ray gun

Verb

phaser (third-person singular simple present phasers, present participle phasering, simple past and past participle phasered)

1. (science fiction, transitive) To shoot with a phaser weapon.

References

Anagrams

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Sherpa, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, pasher, phares, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaper, sharpe, sherpa, shrape, sphear