different between oater vs rater

English

Etymology

oat +? -er (“Variety -er”). ~1945-50, alluding to the fodder for horses, which are common in the movies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?.t?/
• Rhymes: -??t?(?)

Homophone: odor (some dialects)

Noun

oater (plural oaters)

1. (entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
   • 1949 January 10, The Great American Horse Opera, in Life,

     In recent years the western or horse opera, known in the trade as the "oater," has come to be recognized as an art form just as formal as the ballet or the symphony. In essence it is the American morality play. To prove his contention that all this is so, Life Photographer John Florea took these unusual pictures during the filming of Yellow Sky. This is a $1,450,000 western with big-name stars (Gregory Peck, Anne Bancroft, Richard Widmark) and technical talent from 20th Century's top drawer, but is basically a typical oater.

   • 1995, Louis Decimus Rubin, Jerry Leath Mills, A Writer's Companion,

     By far the more common was the low-budget "hoss opera" or "oater," ground out in relentless numbers by studios such as Universal and Republic, and designed basically for edification of the young, who took them in on Fridays and Saturdays along with the episode of a serial, a cartoon, a newsreel, and perhaps a bouncing-ball sing-along. There were, to be sure, degrees of the oater; a somewhat more subtle version, designed for adult as well as child viewing, was also made.

Synonyms

• horse opera, oat opera

See also

• soap opera
• sudser

Anagrams

• Erato, orate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?t?(?)/

Etymology 1

From rate (“to appraise”) +? -er.

Noun

rater (plural raters)

1. One who provides a rating or assessment.

Derived terms

• interrater

Etymology 2

From rate (“to scold; berate”) +? -er.

Noun

rater (plural raters)

1. One who rates or scolds.

Related terms

• berate

Anagrams

• Arter, Terra, arrêt, arter, retar, tarre, terra

French

Etymology

From earlier rater (“to miss, fail to hit, fail, complete unsuccessfully", in reference to a weapon, "to misfire, fail to fire”), from the expression (1651) prendre un rat (“to misfire”, literally “to get a rat”), from rat (“rat”). More at rat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.te/

Verb

rater

1. (transitive) to miss (an event or a thing)

   Il va rater le car

   He's going to miss the bus

2. (intransitive) to fail
3. (transitive, informal) to screw up; to mess up

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ne pas en rater une
• raté

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• arrêt, errât, terra

Ladin

Verb

rater

1. to yield (a return)

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rater m

1. indefinite plural of rate