Backer vs Partisan - What's the difference?
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(phonetics) (back)
:: /e?/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /?/.
English agent nouns
An adherent to a party or faction.
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A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter
The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops: as, a partisan officer or corps.
Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.
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(historical) A spear with a triangular, double-edged blade.
(obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.
Backer is a related term of partisan.
As nouns the difference between backer and partisan
is that backer is baker while partisan is partisan (member of a body of detached light troops).backer
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Adjective
(head)- Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 174:
partisan
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(wikipedia partisan)Alternative forms
* partizanEtymology 1
From (etyl) partisan, from (etyl) . English from the mid-16th century. The sense of "guerilla fighter" is from c. 1690. The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century, in the political sense since 1842.Noun
(en noun)- while Xenophanes, the first of these partisans of the One (for Parmenides is said to have been his pupil), gave no clear statement,
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.}}