different between stalker vs stacker

English

Etymology

From Middle English stalkere, equivalent to stalk +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?(?)
• Homophone: stocker (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

stalker (plural stalkers)

1. A person who engages in stalking, i.e. quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.
2. A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
3. Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.
4. Any bird that walks with a stalking motion.
5. (obsolete) A kind of fishing net.

Synonyms

• (a person who stalks game): tracker
• (a person who secretly follows someone): prowler

Translations

Anagrams

• talkers

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English stalker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?stalk?r]
• Hyphenation: stal?ker

Noun

stalker m anim

1. A stalker (person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions).

Declension

Further reading

• stalker in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• stalker in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English stalker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?l.k?r/
• Hyphenation: stal?ker

Noun

stalker m (plural stalkers, diminutive stalkertje n)

1. A stalker (person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions).

Related terms

• stalken
• stalking

English

Etymology

stack +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?stæk?/
• Rhymes: -æk?(r)

Noun

stacker (plural stackers)

1. Any person or thing that stacks.
   • 1991, Joan H. Cantor, ?Charles C. Spiker, ?Lewis Paeff Lipsitt, Child Behavior and Development: Training for Diversity (page 168)

     As behavioral scientists we are not good block stackers — we don't replicate enough or build systematically across knowledge bases.

   1. A worker who stacks the shelves in a supermarket.
   2. A participant in sport stacking.
2. Any device allowing items to be stacked.

   a spring-loaded plate stacker in a cafeteria

   1. An output bin in a document feeding or punch card machine (contrast with hopper).
3. (informal) A person who collects precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.

Translations

Anagrams

• rackets, restack, retacks, tackers