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Cater vs Regal - What's the difference?

cater | regal |

As a proper noun cater

is .

As a noun regal is

shelf.

cater

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
  • Did you hire someone to cater our party next week?
  • To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
  • I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
    Derived terms
    * caterer * cater for * cater to

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cut diagonally.
  • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The four of cards or dice.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    regal

    English

    Alternative forms

    * regall (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or having to do with royalty.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • He made a scorn of his regal oath.
  • Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, musici) A small, portable organ played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  • See also

    * kingly * royal * splendid * stately

    Anagrams

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