different between fresher vs thresher

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f????/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Etymology 1

fresh +? -er (used to form the comparative)

Adjective

fresher

1. comparative form of fresh: more fresh

Etymology 2

From a clipping of freshman +? -er (Oxford -er).

Noun

fresher (plural freshers)

1. (Britain) A first year student at a university.
2. (India) A fresh graduate looking for one's first job.

Usage notes

• Fresher is much more commonly used than freshman in the UK.

Synonyms

• (first year student): freshman (now chiefly US), frosh (US)

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:beginner

Related terms

• freshers' week

Anagrams

• refresh

English

Etymology

From Middle English thresshere; equivalent to thresh +? -er. The shark's tail is thought to resemble the implement.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??r???(r)/
• Rhymes: -???(r)

Noun

thresher (plural threshers)

1. (agriculture) Anything or anyone that threshes.
2. (agriculture, obsolete) A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail.
3. (agriculture) A modern farm machine for threshing grain, now a part of combine harvesters rather than a separate implement.
4. (zoology) Any of several large pelagic sharks of the genus Alopias, which have a very long tail; more commonly called thresher sharks. [from 1880s]

Derived terms

• thresherman
• thresher whale

Related terms

• threshing
• thresh

Translations

See also

• Threshing machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thresher shark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alopias on Wikispecies.Wikispecies