different between joiner vs cabinetmaker

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English joynour (“maker of furniture, small boxes, etc.”), from Old French joigneor (“joiner, carpenter”), agent noun from joindre (“to join”), equivalent to join +? -er.

Noun

joiner (plural joiners)

1. A maker of wooden furniture or fittings.
2. A woodworking machine used to prepare edges of wooden elements to join to other wood pieces.

Hypernyms

• (maker of wooden furniture or fittings): carpenter

Translations

Etymology 2

join +? -er

Noun

joiner (plural joiners)

1. A thing that joins two separate items, e.g. software to connect video or music clips.
2. A person who joins societies or organizations.

Derived terms

• zero-width joiner
• zero-width non-joiner

Translations

Anagrams

• rejoin

Scots

Alternative forms

• jiner
• jyner

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??i.n?r/, /?d?oi.n?r/

Noun

joiner (plural joiners)

1. carpenter

English

Etymology

cabinet +? maker

Noun

cabinetmaker (plural cabinetmakers)

1. A skilled woodworker who makes high-quality wooden furniture
   • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima

     He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?

Related terms

• cabinetmaking

Translations

See also

• carpenter
• joiner