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Audience vs Writer - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between audience and writer

is that audience is audience while writer is a person who writes, or produces literary work.

audience

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VII:
  • When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.
  • A group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance.
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
    We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
  • A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
  • The readership of a book or other written publication.
  • A following.
  • Usage notes

    * In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum. *: The audience are getting restless.

    Synonyms

    * * (group of people seeing a performance) spectators, crowd

    Derived terms

    () * intended audience * target audience

    writer

    English

    (wikipedia writer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who writes, or produces literary work.
  • Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet? She’s quite a writer !
  • (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the (East India Company), who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
  • Anything that writes or produces output.
  • * 2001 , Cay S. Horstmann, ?Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals (page 715)
  • If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.

    Synonyms

    * author * See also

    Derived terms

    * copy writer * diary-writer * ghost writer * screenwriter * space writer * writer's cramp