different between player vs trotter

English

Etymology

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English ple?ere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), equivalent to play +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ple??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ple??(?)/
• Rhymes: -e??(?)
• Hyphenation: play?er

Noun

player (plural players)

1. One that plays
   1. One who plays any game or sport.
   2. (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
   3. (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
   4. (gaming, video games) A gamer; a gamester.
   5. (gambling) A gambler.
   6. (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
   7. (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player.
   8. (computing) A software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as media player.
2. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
3. A participant; one involved in something.

   He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
4. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
   • 1977 March 24, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, “Dreams”, Warner Bros.:

     Thunder only happens when it’s rainin’ / Players only love you when they’re playin’ / Say women, they will come and they will go / When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know

Synonyms

• (one who plays; (game) participant; athlete): laker
• (one who plays the field): See Thesaurus:libertine

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• baller

Anagrams

• Rapley, parley, pearly, prelay, replay

Middle English

Noun

player

1. Alternative form of pleyer

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English player.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?plej.e?/

Noun

player m (plural players)

1. (Brazil) (electronics) player (electronic device or software application that plays media)

   Synonyms: tocador, leitor

2. (video games) player (a person or artificial intelligence that competes in a video game)

   Synonym: jogador

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:player.

English

Etymology

From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

trotter (plural trotters)

1. One who trots.
   • 2013, Stephen Dobyns, Saratoga Bestiary

     Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.

2. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.
3. The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped.
4. (slang) A person's foot.
   • 2004, Charley Hester, ?Kirby Ross, The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-popping Cow Waddy (page 27)

     Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.

5. (Britain, historical) A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
   • 1830, William Cobbett, Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions (page 8)

     One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^[sic] of his county.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French trotter, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trott?re, *trot?re (“to go”), from Frankish *trott?n (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trud?n?, *trudan?, *tradjan? (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreu-, *der?-, *dr?- (“to run, escape”). Cognates: see English trot. More at tread.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.te/

Verb

trotter

1. (usually of a horse) to trot

Conjugation

Derived terms

• trottiner
• trottoir

Further reading

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