different between zapper vs mapper

English

Etymology

zap +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: z?p??(r), IPA^(key): /?zæp.?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æp?(r)

Noun

zapper (plural zappers)

1. (colloquial) A remote control for a television.

   The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.

2. A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
3. (figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
   • 1989, Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)

     If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick […]

Translations

French

Etymology

From English zap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /za.pe/

Verb

zapper

1. to channel-hop, channel surf
2. (figuratively) to dither, change one's opinion rapidly, vacillate
3. to skip over
4. (familiar) to forget

Conjugation

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

map +? -er

Noun

mapper (plural mappers)

1. One who produces a map.
2. (video games) A designer of levels for video games.
   • 2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

     As he churned out early versions of the Quake III engine, the mappers and artists felt adrift, with no direction on what to pursue.

3. (computing, electronics) A software or hardware component that performs a mapping.

Synonyms

• cartographer

Translations

Anagrams

• pamper, pampre, pre-amp, preamp

Danish

Noun

mapper c

1. indefinite plural of mappe

French

Verb

mapper

1. To map (all senses)

Conjugation