different between readier vs reader

English

Adjective

readier

1. comparative form of ready: more ready

Noun

readier (plural readiers)

1. One who or that which makes something ready.

Anagrams

• reaired

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