different between taster vs tester

English

Etymology

taste +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?st?/
• Rhymes: -e?st?(?)

Noun

taster (plural tasters)

1. An object in which, or by which, food or drink is tasted, for example a dram cup
2. Someone who tastes something, especially food, wine etc., for quality.

   • Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat

3. (zoology) A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophorae, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.
4. A sample of something bigger or grander intended for future use

   The exhibition was a taster of products set to hit the market.

5. A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide

Translations

Anagrams

• Rattes, Satter, Strate, Treats, at rest, atters, ratest, rattes, stater, tarest, taters, tetras, treats

Danish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

taster

1. indefinite plural of tast

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

taster

1. present of taste

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

taster m

1. indefinite plural of tast

Verb

taster

1. present of taste

Old French

Etymology

From a late Vulgar Latin *tast?re, from contraction of *taxit?re, iterative of Late Latin tax?re, present active infinitive of tax?, from Classical Latin tang? (“I touch”). Compare Catalan and Occitan tastar, Italian tastare.

Verb

taster

1. to taste
2. to touch
3. to hit; to strike

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Synonyms

• (to hit, to strike): ferir, fraper

Descendants

• ? English: taste
• French: tâter

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (taster)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Etymology 1

Probably from Old French testre, from Latin testa.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. A canopy over a bed.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.13:

     And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.

   • October 3, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann

     No tester to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
2. Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 11:

     With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.

Etymology 2

From test +? -er.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. A person who administers a test.
2. A device used for testing.
3. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person?s back.
4. A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
5. (cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.

Synonyms

• (punishment) Botany Bay dozen

Hyponyms

• software tester

Translations

Etymology 3

For testern, teston, from French teston, from Old French teste (“the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin”). See tester (“a covering”), and compare testone, testoon.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. An old French silver coin.
2. (Britain, slang, dated) A sixpence.

   Synonyms: teston, tizzy

References

Anagrams

• Setter, Street, Teters, retest, setter, street

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?s.te/

Etymology 1

test +? -er

Verb

tester

1. to test

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Latin testor.

Verb

tester

1. (law) to write one's will

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

tester

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of testor

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tester m

1. indefinite plural of test

Verb

tester

1. present of teste

Romanian

Etymology

From English tester.

Noun

tester n (plural testere)

1. tester

Declension

Swedish

Noun

tester

1. indefinite plural of test