different between tabler vs fabler

English

Etymology

table +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?b?l?(?)/, /?te?bl?(?)/

Noun

tabler (plural tablers)

1. Agent noun of the verb to table; one who tables.
   • 1991, Richard J. Watts, Power in Family Discourse, p. 166:

     ...it has developed up to this point she has functioned as the tabler of topics specifically aimed at the affairs of Muriel and William's nuclear family.

2. (obsolete) One who boards others for payment.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood

     The scene, the engine; but he now is come
     To be the music-master; tabler too

Anagrams

• Albert, Bartel, Bartle, balter, bralet, labret

French

Etymology

table +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ble/

Verb

tabler

1. (transitive with sur) To base one's scheming on something.

   Synonyms: miser sur, compter sur

Usage notes

• This verb requires the preposition sur (“on”) or related adverbs of location such as dessus (“on it”).

Conjugation

Further reading

• “tabler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Albert

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tablere, tabeler, tabelere

Etymology

From Old French tablier; equivalent to table +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?b(?)l?r(?)/

Noun

tabler (plural tabelers)

1. Backgammon or a game like it.
2. (rare) A notepad or other portable writing instrument.
3. (rare) A mat or cover for a table.

References

• “t?bler(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-28.

English

Etymology

fable +? -er

Noun

fabler (plural fablers)

1. A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd’s Calendar, London, “Aprill,”^[1]

     […] certain fine fablers and lowd lyers, such as were the Authors of King Arthure the great and such like, who tell many an vnlawfull leasing of the Ladyes of the Lake, that is, the Nymphes.

   • 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Boston: James Munroe, “Wednesday,” p. 279,^[2]

     No wonder that the Mythology, and Arabian Nights, and Shakespeare, and Scott’s novels, entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and dramatists and novelists ourselves.

   • 2015, John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, Chapter 25,

     Clark insisted that Juan Diego was “on the imagination’s side”; Juan Diego was a “fabler, not a memoirist,” Clark said.

Anagrams

• Frable

Danish

Noun

fabler c pl

1. indefinite plural of fabel

Verb

fabler

1. present of fable

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fabler m

1. indefinite plural of fabel