Banker vs Blanker - What's the difference?
banker | blanker |
One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
(obsolete) A money changer.
The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
(UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
* 1941 , (Ernestine Hill), My Love Must Wait , A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:
(rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
(blank)
* 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"
(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
* 1987 , Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple (page 221)
As a noun banker
is banker (who works in the banking industry).As a verb blanker is
.banker
English
Etymology 1
From bank + , after French banquierNoun
(wikipedia banker) (en noun)- (Weale)
Etymology 2
From bank (An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea) + -erNoun
(en noun)- But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
- (Grabb)
Etymology 3
From . (Bank engine)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (railway locomotive) bank engine (UK), helper engine (US)blanker
English
Adjective
(head)- And lonely as it is, that loneliness
- Will be more lonely ere it will be less —
- A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
- With no expression, nothing to express.
Noun
(en noun)- These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.