different between rafter vs raster

English

Etymology 1

From Old English ræfter, of Germanic origin, related to the origin of raft.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????ft?(?)/
• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /??æft??/

Noun

rafter (plural rafters)

1. One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.

   • […] the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters,

2. A flock of turkeys.

Translations

Verb

rafter (third-person singular simple present rafters, present participle raftering, simple past and past participle raftered)

1. (transitive) To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.
2. (transitive) To furnish (a building) with rafters.
3. (Britain, agriculture) To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.

References

Etymology 2

raft +? -er

Noun

rafter (plural rafters)

1. A raftsman.

Anagrams

• Frater, farter, frater

English

Etymology

From German Raster, from Latin r?ster, from r?strum (“rake”, noun), from r?dere (“to scrape”, verb).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æst?/
• Rhymes: -æst?(r)

Noun

raster (plural rasters)

1. (electronics) A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.
2. (computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.

   Synonyms: bitmap, pixmap

   Coordinate term: vector

Derived terms

• subraster

Translations

Verb

raster (third-person singular simple present rasters, present participle rastering, simple past and past participle rastered)

1. To scan in parallel lines.

Further reading

• raster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• raster at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Arters, arrest, arrêts, rarest, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

raster n (plural rasters, diminutive rastertje n)

1. grid
2. raster

Anagrams

• arrest, starer, terras

Swedish

Noun

raster n

1. a raster, a grid
2. indefinite plural of rast

Declension

Related terms

• rastrera

Anagrams

• arters, estrar, tsarer