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Caller vs Crier - What's the difference?

caller | crier |

As a noun caller

is the person who made a telephone call.

As a proper noun crier is

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caller

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The person who made a telephone call.
    • - I've got someone on the line.
    - Who's the caller ?
  • A visitor.
    • a gentleman caller
  • (bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
  • (computing, programming) The function that calls another (the callee).
  • A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.

    • Derived terms

    * caller ID

    Anagrams

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    crier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who cries.
  • * 1967 , Richard M. Elman, The 28th day of Elul (page 94)
    • Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell.
  • An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier.

    • Anagrams

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