different between mapper vs tapper

English

Etymology

map +? -er

Noun

mapper (plural mappers)

1. One who produces a map.
2. (video games) A designer of levels for video games.
   • 2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

     As he churned out early versions of the Quake III engine, the mappers and artists felt adrift, with no direction on what to pursue.

3. (computing, electronics) A software or hardware component that performs a mapping.

Synonyms

• cartographer

Translations

Anagrams

• pamper, pampre, pre-amp, preamp

Danish

Noun

mapper c

1. indefinite plural of mappe

French

Verb

mapper

1. To map (all senses)

Conjugation

English

Etymology

tap +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

tapper (plural tappers)

1. One who makes a tapping noise.
   • 1836-37, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in […]

2. A tap-dancer.
3. A phone tapper or wiretapper.
4. (baseball slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
5. (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
6. (Britain, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
7. (US) A tapster.

Derived terms

• toe tapper, toe-tapper
• wheeltapper, wheel-tapper

Anagrams

• Trappe

Danish

Noun

tapper

1. indefinite plural of tap

Verb

tapper

1. present of tappe

Middle English

Noun

tapper

1. Alternative form of taper

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish dapper, from Middle Low German dapper, tapper. Further origin disputed. Possibly cognate with Old Norse dapr (“heavy”), German tapfer (“dauntless”) and English dapper.

Adjective

tapper (comparative tapprare, superlative tapprast)

1. brave

   Synonyms: modig, djärv, orädd

Declension

Derived terms

• tapperhet

References

• tapper in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tapper in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tapper in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• tapper in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)