different between reacher vs teacher

English

Etymology

reach +? -er

Noun

reacher (plural reachers)

1. A person who reaches.
   • 1985, Gordon Williams, Macbeth: text and performance (page 17)

     In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.

2. A device used to reach something.
3. A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.
   • 2005, J. Howard Williams, Love at First Sight: A Lifetime of Sailing on Galveston Bay

     Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.

4. (obsolete) An exaggeration.

   • I can hardly believe that Reacher, which another writeth of him, that “with the palms of his hands he could touch his knees, though he stood upright"

English

Etymology

From Middle English techere, equivalent to teach +? -er. More at teach.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tit???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ti?t???/
• Rhymes: -i?t??(?)
• Hyphenation: teach?er

Noun

teacher (plural teachers)

1. A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school.
2. The index finger; the forefinger.
3. An indication; a lesson.
4. (Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.

Synonyms

• (person who teaches): preceptor
• (index finger): See Thesaurus:index finger

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• cheater, hectare, rechate, recheat, reteach

Spanish

Alternative forms

• tícher

Etymology

Borrowed from English teacher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tit??e?/, [?t?i.t??e?]

Noun

teacher m or f (plural teachers)

1. a teacher of English