different between roster vs rodster

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???st?/, /???st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Noun

roster (plural rosters)

1. A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class.
   • 2013, William Brinkley, The Last Ship (Penguin, ?ISBN), page 132:

     [So many of] the crew, men and officers alike, read them as to make me feel safe in asserting unreservedly that the Nathan James numbered in her company more Turgenev scholars than any other vessel on the United States Navy's entire roster of ships.

2. A list of the jobs to be done by members of an organization and often with the date/time that they are expected to do them.

Translations

See also

• rota

Verb

roster (third-person singular simple present rosters, present participle rostering, simple past and past participle rostered)

1. To place the name of (a person) on a roster.

Translations

References

• Trains: Railroad locomotive rosters

Anagrams

• Storer, Torres, re-sort, resort, retros, sorter, storer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• roostare

Etymology

From rosten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??st?r(?)/

Noun

roster

1. (rare, Late Middle English) A roaster (a person who roasts).

Descendants

• English: roaster

References

• “r?ster(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-09.

Spanish

Noun

roster m (plural rosters or roster)

1. (baseball) roster

English

Etymology

Derived from rod +? -ster.

Noun

rodster (plural rodsters)

1. One who uses a fishing rod; an angler.

Anagrams

• dorters, restor'd