different between lister vs linter

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• leister (fish spear)

Noun

lister (plural listers)

1. A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.

Etymology 2

list +? -er

Noun

lister (plural listers)

1. One who, or that which, lists or produces a listing.
   • 1984, John C. Nash, Effective scientific problem solving with small computers (page 113)

     A good program lister is helpful here, since many language processors allow multi-statement lines. For BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and similar languages, the lister can split multi-statement lines, ensure there are blanks between keywords […]

2. A person or organisation that creates or maintains lists.
3. (birdwatching) A birdwatcher who keeps track of birds using different checklists.

Related terms

• list
• List 99
• listee
• listing
• List X

Etymology 3

Compare list (“a strip, border”), probably applied to the furrow or the ridge of earth along the furrow.

Noun

lister (plural listers)

1. A double-mouldboard plough that throws a deep furrow and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.

Translations

Anagrams

• Sitler, liters, litres, relist, tilers, triels

Danish

Noun

lister c

1. indefinite plural of liste

Verb

lister

1. present of liste

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lis.te/

Verb

lister

1. list (to create a list)

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• litres

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lister m or f

1. indefinite plural of liste

Verb

lister

1. present of liste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lister f

1. indefinite plural of liste

Swedish

Noun

lister

1. indefinite plural of list

Anagrams

• liters, sliter, steril

English

Etymology 1

Noun

linter (countable and uncountable, plural linters)

1. The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
2. (countable) A machine for removing these fibres.

   Synonym: delinter

3. A person or device that collects lint for use in making hats &c

See also

• lint doctor
• lint roller

Etymology 2

lint +? -er

Noun

linter (plural linters)

1. (computing) A program or algorithm that performs linting.

Latin

Etymology

From older form lunter, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to wash”); more at pluit (“it rains”). Cf. also Ancient Greek ??????? (plunt?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lin.ter/, [?l?n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lin.ter/, [?lin?t??r]

Noun

linter f or m (genitive lintris); third declension

1. tub, trough
2. small light boat, skiff, canoe

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• The genitive plural is sometimes found as lintrum.

Descendants

• Albanian: ljundrë
• Aromanian: luntri, lãndurã
• Dalmatian: lundro
• Romanian: luntre

References

• linter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• linter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• linter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• linter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers