different between reader vs reciter

English

Etymology

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English r?dere, r?dere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *r?d?ri, equivalent to read +? -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??id?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?d?/
• Rhymes: -i?d?(?)

Noun

reader (plural readers)

1. A person who reads.

   an early reader, a talented reader

2. A person who reads a publication.

   10,000 weekly readers

3. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
4. A proofreader.

   Synonyms: proofreader, printer's reader

6. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.

   Synonyms: publisher's reader, first reader

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 123, [1]

     They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.

7. (chiefly Britain) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
8. Any device that reads something.

   a card reader, a microfilm reader

9. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
10. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
11. A literary anthology.
12. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
13. (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

    Synonym: reading notice

14. (in the plural) Reading glasses.
15. (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheats.
    • 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1 (page 286)

      LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.

    • 1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception (page 185)

      Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."

Derived terms

• early reader
• e-reader

Translations

Anagrams

• dearer, re-read, reared, reread

English

Etymology

From recite +? -er.

Noun

reciter (plural reciters)

1. One who recites.
   • 1943, T. S. Eliot, On Poetry and Poets, New York: Noonday Press, 1961, p. 27,

     It is not primarily lack of plot, or lack of action and suspense, or imperfect realization of character, or lack of anything of what is called 'theatre', that makes these plays so lifeless: it is primarily that their rhythm of speech is something that we cannot associate with any human being except a poetry reciter.

   • 1956, Moses Hadas, Editor's Introduction, Medea, Bobbs-Merrill, p. 7,

     Indeed it is very doubtful that Seneca's plays were ever intended for full performance; it is more likely that they were presented by a cast of reciters, like an oratorio.

   • 1972, Ng?g? wa Thiong'o, Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics, London: Heinemann, Part Two, p. 75,

     The African song gets its effect from an accumulation of details, statements and imagery, and in the variation of the tone and attitude of the poet-reciter to the object of praise.

   • 1978, Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vintage, Chapter 2, p. 186,

     Alemah in Arabic means a learned woman. It was the name given to women in conservative eighteenth-century Egyptian society who were accomplished reciters of poetry.

   • 2010, David Waines, The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer, New York: I.B. Tauris, Chapter 2, p. 49,

     These were emotional occasions for Ibn Battuta, who describes the beauty of the Quran reciters’ voices that worked upon the soul, humbled the heart, made the skin tingle and brought tears to the eyes.

Translations

Danish

Verb

reciter

1. imperative of recitere

Latin

Verb

reciter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of recit?