Canopy vs Tester - What's the difference?
canopy | tester |
A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
* Dryden
Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
To cover with or as if with a canopy.
* Milton
To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
A canopy over a bed.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.13:
*:And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.
* Walpole
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) , :
A person who administers a test.
A device used for testing.
(Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person?s back.1987 , , 1996, paperback, ISBN 1-86046-150-6, Chapter 12.
A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
As nouns the difference between canopy and tester
is that canopy is a high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed while tester is a canopy over a bed.As a verb canopy
is to cover with or as if with a canopy.canopy
English
Noun
(canopies)- golden canopies and beds of state
Verb
(en-verb)- A bank with ivy canopied .
See also
* canopied * canopy bed English eponymstester
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) testre, from (etyl) testa.Noun
(en noun)- No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
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- With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.