different between tapper vs chamfer

English

Etymology

tap +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

tapper (plural tappers)

1. One who makes a tapping noise.
   • 1836-37, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in […]

2. A tap-dancer.
3. A phone tapper or wiretapper.
4. (baseball slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
5. (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
6. (Britain, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
7. (US) A tapster.

Derived terms

• toe tapper, toe-tapper
• wheeltapper, wheel-tapper

Anagrams

• Trappe

Danish

Noun

tapper

1. indefinite plural of tap

Verb

tapper

1. present of tappe

Middle English

Noun

tapper

1. Alternative form of taper

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish dapper, from Middle Low German dapper, tapper. Further origin disputed. Possibly cognate with Old Norse dapr (“heavy”), German tapfer (“dauntless”) and English dapper.

Adjective

tapper (comparative tapprare, superlative tapprast)

1. brave

   Synonyms: modig, djärv, orädd

Declension

Derived terms

• tapperhet

References

• tapper in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tapper in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tapper in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• tapper in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

English

Etymology

From Middle French chanfraindre (modern French chanfreiner).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æm.f?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??æm.f?/

Noun

chamfer (plural chamfers)

1. An obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.

   Synonyms: round, bevel

   Antonym: fillet

Translations

Verb

chamfer (third-person singular simple present chamfers, present participle chamfering, simple past and past participle chamfered)

1. (transitive) To cut off the edge or corner of something.

   Synonym: bevel

2. (transitive) To cut a groove in something.

   Synonym: flute

Translations

Further reading

• chamfer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “chamfer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

References