different between zapper vs rapper

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

Alternative forms

• rappuh

Etymology

rap +? -er

Pronunciation

• Homophones: wrapper
• Rhymes: -æp?(r)

Noun

rapper (plural rappers)

1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
   1. The knocker of a door.
   2. (historical, mining) A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
   3. A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
2. (music) A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.

3. (obsolete, Scotland) A sword.
4. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
5. A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
6. (colloquial, dated) A bold lie; a whopper.
7. (colloquial, dated) A loud oath.

Translations

Anagrams

• RepRap

Danish

Etymology 1

Noun

rapper c (singular definite rapperen, plural indefinite rappere)

1. rapper (practitioner of rap music)

Declension

Verb

rapper

1. present of rappe

Etymology 2

Verb

rapper

1. present of rappe

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?p?r/
• Hyphenation: rap?per
• Rhymes: -?p?r

Adjective

rapper

1. Comparative form of rap

Etymology 2

From English rapper. Surface analysis rappen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?p?r/ or as in English
• Hyphenation: rap?per

Noun

rapper m (plural rappers, diminutive rappertje n)

1. rapper (performer of rap music)

French

Etymology 1

English rap +? -er

Alternative forms

• raper

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.pe/

Verb

rapper

1. (music) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rapper.

Alternative forms

• rappeur (more common)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.pœ?/

Noun

rapper m (plural rappers)

1. (music) rapper

Portuguese

Noun

rapper m, f (plural rappers)

1. rapper (hip hop performer)