different between plotter vs machinator

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Etymology 1

plot +? -er

Noun

plotter (plural plotters)

1. A person who plots.
2. (computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.
3. (navigation) An instrument used to mark or find the position of a vessel on a chart.

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

plotter (third-person singular simple present plotters, present participle plottering, simple past and past participle plottered)

1. Alternative form of plouter

Anagrams

• pelt rot, portlet

French

Verb

plotter

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of peloter

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

plotter

1. present of plotte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?chin?tor (“engineer, inventor”).

Noun

machinator (plural machinators)

1. One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.

Related terms

• machinate
• machination
• machinatrix

Anagrams

• achromatin, chromatian, marathonic

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma?.k?i?na?.tor/, [mä?k???nä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.ki?na.tor/, [m?ki?n??t??r]

Noun

m?chin?tor m (genitive m?chin?t?ris); third declension

1. engineer
2. inventor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

m?chin?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of m?chinor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of m?chinor

References

• machinator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• machinator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• machinator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• machinator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• machinator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016