different between slater vs elater

English

Etymology

From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sle?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sle?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

slater (plural slaters)

1. One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
2. Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.
3. A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something.
   • 1901, The Critic (volume 39, page 562)

     Plain speaking, now and then, is very necessary. The author will call the critic a “blackguard slater," of course, but he need not be a blackguard. Ferocity of language only hurts his effect.

Translations

See also

• butcher boy
• sowbug
• woodlouse
• sai bug
• saisai gnat

Anagrams

• Salter, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

English

Etymology 1

elate +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??le?.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??le?.t?/

Noun

elater (plural elaters)

1. That which elates.

Etymology 2

From New Latin elat?r, from Ancient Greek ?????? (elat?r, “driver, that which drives away”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l.?.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l.?.t?/

Noun

elater (plural elaters)

1. (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
2. (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
3. (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
4. (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.

Derived terms

• pseudoelater

References

• elater in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Aertel, Ertale, Tralee, alreet, e-alert, earlet, relate, telera