different between framer vs initiator

English

Etymology

frame +? -er

Noun

framer (plural framers)

1. A person who makes frames for paintings.
2. A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
3. (US) A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
4. A person who writes a new law.
5. A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
6. (Internet) A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.
   • 2020, Julian S. Millstein, ?Jeffrey D. Neuburger, ?Jeffrey P. Weingart, Doing Business on the Internet: Forms and Analysis (page 116)

     The Los Angeles Times is also policing Web sites that frame its site without permission. As of November 1997, the Times had threatened to send cease and desist letters to unlicensed framers.

Coordinate terms

• framee

Translations

See also

• framer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Farmer, farmer

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