different between locker vs drawer

English

Etymology

From lock (lock +? -er) from Old English loc (“fastening, enclosure”), from Proto-Germanic *luk?. Cognate with German Loch, Dutch luik, and Dutch loket.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Noun

locker (plural lockers)

1. A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store clothing, equipment, or books.

   The student placed her books in her locker when she arrived at school.

2. (rare) One who locks something.

   The locker of the trapped chest must be careful, so as not to spring the trap.

3. (automotive) A locking differential.
4. (historical) A customs officer who guards a warehouse.
   • 1845, Reports of cases argued and determined in the courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber (volume 12)

     The actual delivery of the goods is then effected by any person bearing an order from the importer, called a merchant's order, and addressed to the warehouse-keeper, upon the presentment of which the warehouseman delivers the goods, having previously obtained the signature of the locker to it as a proof that the duties have been paid […]

Synonyms

• (storage compartment): footlocker

Derived terms

• locker room

Translations

See also

• chest
• trunk

Anagrams

• relock, rockel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English locker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: loc?ker
• Rhymes: -?k?r

Noun

locker m (plural lockers, diminutive lockertje n)

1. A locker (lockable storage compartment).

   Synonym: kluis

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

locker (comparative lockerer, superlative am lockersten)

1. loose
2. relaxed

Declension

Synonyms

• (relaxed): entspannt

Antonyms

• (relaxed): verkrampft

Adverb

locker

1. loosely
2. relaxedly, casually
3. (with an estimate) easily (expressing confidence in the value)

Verb

locker

1. inflection of lockern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Further reading

• “locker” in Duden online
• “locker” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “locker”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English locker.

Noun

locker m (plural lockeres)

1. locker

English

Pronunciation

• (box)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /d???(?)/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /d???/
  • Rhymes: -??(r)
  • Homophone: draw (UK)

• (person)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???.?(?)/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.?/, /?d????/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?d??.?/
  • Rhymes: -???(?)

Etymology 1

From draw (“to move by pulling”) +? -er; compare French tiroir. Attested from the 16th century.

Noun

drawer (plural drawers)

1. An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
2. (graphical user interface) A side panel containing supplementary content.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English drawer, from draw +? -er (“person or thing that does the action”). Attested from the 14th century.

Noun

drawer (plural drawers)

1. Agent noun of draw; one who draws.
2. An artist who primarily makes drawings.
3. (banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
4. A barman; a person who draws the beer from the taps.
5. Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.
6. (mining, historical) A wagoner or person who pushes underground tubs.

Translations

See also

• drawers

References

Anagrams

• Warder, redraw, reward, warder, warred