different between lancer vs lanker

English

Etymology

From French lancier (“lancer”).

Noun

lancer (plural lancers)

1. (military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
2. (entomology) Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.
3. One who lances something.
   • 1968, Journal of Secondary Education

     The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]

Synonyms

• uhlan

Coordinate terms

Translations

Further reading

• lancer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carlen, necral

French

Etymology

From Old French lancier, from Late Latin lance?re, present active infinitive of lance?, from Latin lancea. Compare Catalan llançar, Italian lanciare, Occitan and Portuguese lançar, Spanish lanzar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??.se/

Verb

lancer

1. to throw
2. to start, to launch

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.

Synonyms

• jeter
• projeter

Derived terms

• lance et compte

Descendants

• ? Dutch: lanceren
• ? German: lancieren

Noun

lancer m (plural lancers)

1. a throw
2. (baseball) a pitch
3. (field hockey or ice hockey) a shot

Related terms

Further reading

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

English

Adjective

lanker

1. comparative form of lank: more lank

Anagrams

• KERNAL, Karlen, rankle